i wouldve thought the point is to use these old jets to force ROCAF to expend valuable flight hours.
China Flanker Thread III (land based, exclude J-15)
- Thread starter Blitzo
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Seems as if older J-16 batches - here a Batch 01 aircraft - are also getting the new radome (and so eventually a new radar?)
by78
General
I can't tell if you're trolling or you're serious, but could you please take your shitposting somewhere else?
plawolf
Lieutenant General
There is no need when just J16s doing regular training exercises would be enough to deplete the ROCAF’s remaining airframe hours if they tried to intercept every PLAAF flight.
The fact that the ROCAF had basically given up even bothering to intercept the vast majority of PLAAF ‘incursions’ into their ADIZ (which covers an area of southern mainland China far bigger than Taiwan island btw) basically makes any attempts to actively deplete their airframe hours a waste of time since the ROCAF will just not turn up to play.
So the PLAAF does their regular training and the ROCAF turtle up at home is the real normal these days.
Thanks to my dear friend … my PLAAF Flanker family collection is slowly growing!
Congratulatio!
still very impressive, in Spanish world, seems quite rare to talk about this kind topic.