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Five F-CK-1s of 427th Wing Parked at Ching Chuan Kang Air Base Apron. The AIDC F-CK-1 Ching-Kuo (Chinese: 經國號戰機; pinyin: Jīngguó Hào Zhànjī), commonly known as the Indigenous Defense Fighter (IDF), is a multirole combat aircraft named after Chiang Ching-kuo, the late President of the Republic of China. The aircraft made its first ...
Southern Min. Hokkien POJ. Tiong-huâ Bîn-kok Khong-kun. The Republic of China Air Force (ROCAF; known historically as the Chinese Air Force[4] and colloquially as the Taiwanese Air Force) is the military aviation branch of the Republic of China Armed Forces, based in Taiwan since 1947. The ROCAF was founded in 1920 by the Kuomintang.
In January, a F-16 fighter jet crashed into the sea while taking part in training exercises. Combat training for Taiwan's F-16 fleet was suspended in the aftermath of the crash. [17] On 14 March, a Dassault Mirage 2000 fighter jet crashed into the sea after a mechanical problem while on a training mission from Chihhang Air Base. [18]
China last staged full-fledged war games around Taiwan in late May, shortly after the new president, Lai Ching-te, took office. Beijing detests him, calling him a "separatist".
BEIJING (Reuters) -China's military said on Wednesday it sent fighter jets to monitor and warn a U.S. Navy patrol aircraft that flew over the sensitive Taiwan Strait, a mission that took place ...
Taiwan fighter jet crashes at sea on training mission. September 10, 2024 at 10:02 AM. TAIPEI (Reuters) - A Taiwan air force Mirage fighter jet crashed off the island's northwest coast on Tuesday ...
1 pilot missing, presumed dead. The Hainan Island incident was a ten-day international incident between the United States and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) that resulted from a mid-air collision between a United States Navy EP-3E ARIES II signals intelligence aircraft and a Chinese Air Force J-8 interceptor on April 1, 2001.
The missing aircraft involved. The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 [a] led to a multinational search effort in Southeast Asia and the southern Indian Ocean that became the most expensive search in aviation history. [2] Despite delays, the search of the priority search area was to be completed around May 2015. [3]