Yah I have good Taiwanese friend and he keeps me up to date on the political subterfuge....past what happens with direct military espionage/compromise and 5th columning in various aspects of Taiwanese society already. Taiwan was basically reliant on political ramp of Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao...
Yah but I mention NORAD for a reason. RCAF is tied at the hip to USAF literally. No other 2 airforces anywhere operate/exist like this. If relations go really sour, RCAF is literally stuck in worst spot of between a rock and hard place on the infra its reliant on and accustomed to. It is simply...
It would make no sense to acquire just 16.
This is just to apply counter pressure on Trump admin to drop the 51st state shenanigans.
I mean RCAF either gets 5th gen for its arctic needs till 2050 (with belligerent Russia and possibly China later given NORAD with US) and beyond or it has to...
Given drones and cruise missiles these days relative to such transport ship becoming high value in a crossing, China would have to arrange and concentrate an inordinate amount of AAD (onshore and on warships with the flotilla) as well.
There are next generation sea mines and UUVs as well that...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/first-in-orbit-photo-taken-by-secretive-boeing-x-37b-spacecraft-officially-released/ar-AA1zvm9e?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=f2107ed3a4ae4eb5f6e7239d514a350d&ei=37
On Feb. 20, 2025, the Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs uploaded on the DVIDS...
@Anmdt (and anyone else that can maybe shed more insight)
I was doing deep dive into more radar technology, basically to try to assign power levels for naval wargaming in domain of electronically scanned arrays w.r.t planar phase shift (more well known in general to layfolk as PESA, AESA etc)...