TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
According to the LA times, It vanished about half an hour after take off at 5,200 feet.
That's not very high up in altitude.
Taiwan Military News, Reports, Data, etc.
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That's not very high up in altitude.
No radio communication that he was in trouble or even tried ejecting.
I wonder one signs of impact as the plane hit the water, failed to alert the other pilots?
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
It was a night flight his wingmen were probably trying to keep themselves in control at low altitudes.
Jura The idiot
General
Skywatcher
Captain
Port calls are a bad idea.
If things get really tense in the Straits just before, say, an Arleigh Burke DDG visits, Kaoshiung, we're stuck with two bad options:
1) Send the ship ahead anyways, and in the closed waters (or heck, even on the eastern shore) of the Taiwan Straits, it's not exactly in an ideal fighting environment for the blue team when the balloon goes up, to put it mildly. Could be even worse for a SSN or a carrier/amphibious asset.
2) Cancel the visit and lose a lot of face.
If things get really tense in the Straits just before, say, an Arleigh Burke DDG visits, Kaoshiung, we're stuck with two bad options:
1) Send the ship ahead anyways, and in the closed waters (or heck, even on the eastern shore) of the Taiwan Straits, it's not exactly in an ideal fighting environment for the blue team when the balloon goes up, to put it mildly. Could be even worse for a SSN or a carrier/amphibious asset.
2) Cancel the visit and lose a lot of face.
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
translation: US Get in line and let us strangle Taiwan.
Of course the interpretations of the comunicaies and Policies have always been different in Washington vs Beijing. The US favoring a live and let live on both sides of the straight well Bejing has a strict isolation concept meant to force all foreign relations thought the PRC.
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
Air Force to review bids for Mirage-2000 salvage mission on Monday
2017/11/18 17:08:28
File photo (photo courtesy of the Ministry of National Defense ROC)
Taipei, Nov. 18 (CNA) The Republic of China (Taiwan) Air Force has announced a formal request for tenders (RTF) for companies to conduct a marine salvage mission to retrieve the black box of a Mirage-2000 fighter jet that went missing on Nov. 7.
According to an unnamed Air Force official, the RTF, which was made public earlier this week, has attracted bids from more than five companies, all of which are able to locate and retrieve the black box from a depth of 100 meters.
The Air Force is scheduled to review the bids on Monday, Nov. 20. If all goes well, the contract will then be awarded and the chosen company will proceed with salvage work, weather conditions permitting, the unnamed source said.
The earliest possible date for the mission, according to current weather reports, is most likely after Nov. 24th, the official added.
It has been 12 days since the Mirage-2000, piloted by Captain Ho Tzu-yu (何子雨), went missing off northeast Taiwan. Since then, the Air Force has detected and located a signal similar to that sent from the black box of a Mirage-2000 roughly 145 kilometers north by northeast of Keelung.
(By Liu Lee-jung and Kuan-lin Liu)
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Equation
Lieutenant General
Rather: US stop using Taiwan as a tool for your China containment wet dream.
manqiangrexue
Brigadier
Translation: Mind your own business and get out of our domestic affairs. If the US recognizes that ROC is a part of China, which it does, then this is meddling in other country's domestic affairs. Everybody knows that the US doesn't care about freedom or people dying (or "letting live" LOL) or there would be a lot of small third world countries with no resources and no GDP that the US would be helping; instead, it picks Taiwan. Why? To make simple matters muddled and complicated for its rival, China. That's the only reason, plain to everyone; you ain't slick. The US can keep up its petty behavior poorly covered by this laughable excuse for as long as it still can because when it finds out that it can not anymore, it will be time to reap what it sowed.
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