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An F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jet assigned to the U.S. Air Force's 8th Fighter Wing crashed into the Yellow Sea off the Western coast of South Korea after experiencing an in-flight emergency. The pilot ejected from the aircraft prior to the crash and was rescued from the water through efforts by the Republic of Korea Navy and Korea Coast Guard .
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-8II interceptor on April 1, 2001. The EP-3 was flying over the South China ...
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]
Two Taiwanese fighter jets crashed on Monday in the third such incident in the past half year, at a time when the Beijing-claimed island's armed forces are under increasing pressure to intercept ...
(Bloomberg) -- A Taiwanese air force trainer jet crashed, killing its pilot, hours after scores of Chinese warplanes flew close to the island, highlighting concerns about its aging military fleet ...
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 ...
The preliminary search for a replacement for the ROCAF's F-5s and F-104s began with the XF-6 indigenous fighter project, later renamed Ying Yang, in the late 1970s.After the US established formal relations with China and ended the Mutual Defense Treaty with Taiwan, President Chiang Ching-Kuo decided to expand the indigenous defense industry and on August 28, 1980, ordered AIDC to design an ...
China jet trainer: K-8: 350 [4] Guizhou JL-9: China jet trainer: 30 [4] Hongdu JL-10: China jet trainer: 200 Xian Y-7: China multi-engine trainer: 25 Guimbal Cabri G2: France rotorcraft trainer 2 [7] Unmanned aerial vehicle; Guizhou Sunshine: China MALE UAV: 55 [8] Chengdu Pterodactyl I: China MALE UAV: 100 [8] Chengdu Pterodactyl 2: China MALE ...