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Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen lauded military cooperation with Washington on Thursday as she commissioned the first combat wing of F-16 fighters upgraded with U.S. help to bolster the island's ...
In 2019 the Taiwan Air Force's Air Defense and Missile Command announced a five-year, NT$80b (US$2.54b) project to build up a full force of anti-radiation UAVs made by NCSIST. [ 35 ] In 2021 April 15 NCSIST stated that its development of a next-generation fighter was progressing ahead of schedule and that the overall design and engine ...
Taiwan's defense ministry thanked the United States and said the sale would boost the combat and defense needs of its air force. ... the sale to Taiwan of F-16 fighter jet spare and repair parts ...
AIDC was established on 1 March 1969 as the Aero Industry Development Center of the Air Force. [3] From 1969 to 1976 AIDC co-produced 118 UH-1H's for the Taiwanese Army with Bell Helicopters. [4] In 1983, AIDC was transferred to the Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology under the Armaments Bureau.
Northrop Grumman developed the latest AESA radar upgrade for the F-16 (selected for USAF and Taiwan's Republic of China Air Force F-16 upgrades), named the AN/APG-83 Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR). [ 100 ] [ 101 ] In July 2007, Raytheon announced that it was developing a Next Generation Radar (RANGR) based on its earlier AN/APG-79 AESA radar ...
A Taiwanese F-16 fighter jet made an emergency landing at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Hawaii on Monday afternoon, and the U.S. Air Force pilot who was flying the aircraft was taken ...
On 13 September 2011, 5506 and F-5F 5401 of the 4th TRS both crashed into a mountain during a night-time sortie, killing all crew. [9] [10] The squadron completed its conversion to the RF-5E on 12 June 2013, operating them alongside the F-16. [8] Northrop RF-5E Tigergazer 5503 of the 12th TRS at Hualien Air Force Base, 2017.
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 Dassault Mirage 2000. [75] The Air Force has reduced its total number of aircraft in the mid-2000s, has been replacing them with more modern fighters. [76]