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An F-16 fighter takes off from Chiayi Air Base in Southern Taiwan. Taiwan is a major F-16 customer. In 1992, 150 F-16A/B Block 20s were ordered while at the same time Taiwan ordered 60 Dassault Mirage 2000s and launched its own indigenous fighter program, the AIDC Ching-Kuo. Delivery of all F-16s was completed in 2001.
China's first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, was part of this week's massive drills. Video shows one of Taiwan's F-16s tracking a Chinese J-15 fighter jet with its sniper pod during war games ...
The ROCAF received second hand equipment from the US at that time, such as the T-33A, T-38A, B-57B, F-84G, F-84F, F-86F, F-86D, F-100A, F-101C, F-104G and F-5E. During the Cold War , the ROCAF was involved in combat air patrols over the Taiwan Strait and engaged the PLAAF and PLAN-AF on several occasions.
Ret. Col. John Venable, a 25-year veteran of the US Air Force and a former F-16 pilot, told BI that the pilot's alertness and quick response "says a lot" about "the capabilities of the Ukrainian ...
Beginning in 1954 with the F-86 Saber, [72] by the late 1980s the ROCAF's fighter force also had the F-100 Super Saber, the F-104 Starfighter, and Northrop F-5. [73] In the 1990s Taiwan began acquiring more modern aircraft to replace the F-5 and to counter the improving People's Liberation Army Air Force, including the F-16 Fighting Falcon and ...
The Ukrainian F-16 pilot said to have shot down half a dozen Russian cruise missiles in a single mission showed remarkable skill, particularly during a risky gun battle, a former US Air Force ...
The pilot of the F-16 ejected safely, but both people in the Cessna were killed. [303] On 11 October 2018, an F-16 MLU from the 2nd Tactical Wing of the Belgian Air Component, on the apron at Florennes Air Station, was hit by a gun burst from a nearby F-16, whose cannon was fired inadvertently during maintenance. The aircraft caught fire and ...
KYIV (Reuters) -An F-16 fighter jet used by Ukraine crashed on Monday, Kyiv's military said, the first such loss reported since the long-awaited arrival of the U.S.-made planes in the country was ...