what does "triumphed" mean in this context? he downed them? are we talking about the vietnam war era?
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Advantage in aerial combat maneuvers. Presumably during intercept.
Wonder if they were Taiwanese or American planes.
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Taiwanese would avoid to stir up any provocative incident while the Americans are just the opposite. PLAAF jets would be more responsive against provocative opponents. Yeah, most likely those were US planes.
Why not Japanese planes or Korean?
Japanese is possible too. Feel like the frequency of encounters with Korea probably isn’t very high compared to Taiwan, the US, or Japan, given the level of activity in the ETC’s jurisdiction these days.
Suixi airbase expansion.
Even more impressive if you follow the development of the expansions ...
The context appears to be fairly general, (interviewee) doesn't seem to be referring to any specific airframes (at least within what's shown). However, the way he says it doesn't preclude the possibility he has something specific in mind (not exactly obvious with literal translations).Does anyone have the video clip from which the screen capture is taken? I'm looking for the context for the caption, which says “so our fighters can fly at mach 2.5". The gentleman in the image is in charge of a certain wind tunnel project.
His full quote: "Nowadays we ride [airliners] at say Mach 0.8, [so/then] our fighters can fly at Mach 2.5."
to the video for ease of translation