In Mars maybe, in the Taiwan straights scenario trying to fend off the PLAAF, with a mix of land based air defences and UAV´s is an invite for a entirely one sided target pratice match.
If the ROCAF wants to comit suicide, deleting its fighter force and increasing its SAM units and complementing them with “UAV´s” (whatever those are) is a fine way of doing it in style.
It might be doable to entirely eradicate the manned component of an air force several decades from now, but its not on the cards for the foreseable future.
If you know or have a better acronym for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs as the Federation of American Scientifics, among many others, refer to them) I would be very pleased to hear it.
And who has talked about getting rid of manned aircraft? The reality is that if Taiwan can’t buy new aircrafts in the near future they are going to need something to fill the gap until they find someone willing to provide them with affordable modern combat aircrafts in time, something that has proven not so easy even with F-16s upgrades.
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