Taiwan Military News, Reports, Data, etc.

Temstar said:

During an open day event an IDF fighter while performing aerobatics caught fire. It managed to perform an emergency landing and both pilot and plane are safe, incident under investigation. Photographers at the event caught it with this photo:
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On that note I myself often refer to F-CK-1 as IDF (and Tejas as LCA) out of habit. But when news specifically say IDF does it mean anything? I don't really know the implications.

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Chevalier said:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1689619050538913792

The rest of the BRICS, especially Russia, better pull their heads in and recognise India for the enemy that it is, and as the perennial slave to the anglos that they are.

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Biscuits said:

The prudent assumption and the assumption I would always have is that they will fight on the same level as a very competent major non state actor, like Hezbollah. It's better to overestimate than to underestimate.

But in truth, the KMT already has a history of gross military incompetence, and it's hard to see that losing 95% of their territories would have had any positive impact on their military training and professionalism.

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Temstar said:

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That's a lot of safety issues this year. The two seriously injured suffered 50% and 85% burns to their body so outlook not very good.

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Temstar said:

Err, there's been another incident at this missile base:

PAC-2 test, missile exploded shortly after launch

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siegecrossbow said:

Good thing they blew it up in test firing then. Imagine if it failed during AR.

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... I approached persons while they were walking, and asked them a simple open-ended question: would they fight, did they expect their fellow citizens to fight, and what, if anything, do they want America to do? ... My interviews yielded four responses.

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First, a majority of those individuals with family links to the former

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(KMT) regime were deeply alienated from the Taiwanese push to reform the island’s identity as both a democracy and distinct from China. ...

Second, there is a general pessimism about the future in Taiwan, despite the unprecedented growth of its hi-tech economy in centers such as Taoyuan, New Taipei, and

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surpassed that of South Korea in 2022, and is expected to

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A third sentiment is the low faith that other Taiwanese would fight, at least for very long. ...

A fourth aspiration, which was voiced by a third of respondents, and not well articulated, was for the U.S. to simply “help.” ...

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