I don’t think they will go out of their way to antagonize China, but Moscow has always had a simple “business is business” attitude when it comes to arms.

Exactly. And Russia never offered to sell a Kalashnikov to Taiwan, much less a few dozens/hundreds of latest generation fighters…
They are not going to jeopardise their relation with China because of Taipei, Russia has billions of reasons to maintain their policy towards Taiwan.

An American aircraft can be all and nothing at the same time depending on the strings attached what equals being in the same voiceless choir as lesser NATO members.

Any military Hardware bought on the external market “can be all and nothing at the same time depending on the strings attached”… Be it Russian, Chinese, French or American.

And i dont quite seem to gather what you mean with “equals being in the same voiceless choir as lesser NATO members”.

You obviously are not a citizen from a NATO country, or else you´be aware that NATO countries do often publicly disagree with each other, and with the USA in particular.
My own Country, a small one, a founding partner of NATO maintained a decades (very public) row with the USA (and to a lesser degree with Germany). We´ve actually fought a three front war across an entire Continent, for twelve years against ferocious public condemnation by Washington. We´ve never left NATO.
Mind you, the Americans were entirely correct…

The USA in NATO are “Primus inter pares”, they are not what the Soviet Union was in the Warsaw Pact

Or not, F-35 is not F-16.

Its that or developing their own aircraft… Lets face it, Europe wont sell them fighters, Korea wont let them in to the KFX, Russia? Not a chance in hell. India? Doubtful in the extreme. Etc, etc…
Its either an American Aircraft or a Taiwanese one.

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.

UCAV´s
But i wasnt discussing sematics, i was just wondering what UAV´s/UCAV´s were those that could be acquired in the foreseable future and would wreak Havoc with the PLAAF while at the same time be available to the Taiwanese Air Force.

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.

But UCAV´s capable of going after the PLAAF fleets are not going to be available in the “near future”…
The USAF/US Navy might get something to do ATG work in a non permissive enviroment in a decade, decade and a half, the rest of the planet will be looking at a two decades time period. And we are talking of recon and ATG offensive missions, doing air defense with UCAV´s will take longer.
Eventualy, when there are a few operational sqn´s of J-20´s, some US President will acept to sell the F-35.

Two French Air Force Alpha Jets went in to Northolt yesterday 🙂

That setles it.
The Adla Alpha Jets orange paint on the fin is clearly visible.

i know the decoy like ITALD , MALD ,ALE-50 can have the RCS equal or bigger than the aircraft it protect by the use of Luneburg lens or enhance repeater but how can they mimicking the shape of the aircraft ( as what i understand the radar that capable of NCTR can see the shape of enemy aircraft right ?)

A quote from those good chaps at Defense Industry Daily:

The Bosnian “Nighthawk Down” incident in 1999 showed that even old air defense systems could still be dangerous, and that smart tactics and selective use could keep those systems alive against heavy opposition. The challenge is finding them and targeting them. Against truly advanced air defense systems like the Russian SA-20 family, however, the challenge is survival. Advanced stealth technologies, advanced anti-radar weapons, and successful electronic jamming are required.

Air-launched decoys help, too. They are not a new concept by any means, and the same technologies used in cruise missiles allow construction of “stealth in reverse” decoys that can fly long distances along pre-planned flight patterns, carrying radar reflectors that can simulate the radar return of fighter or bomber aircraft. Enemy air defenses see them as incoming aircraft, and must decide to either shut down and hide, or activate and reveal their position.

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/Raytheons-MALD-Decoys-Gaining-Versatility-04844/
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/ariel-view/2011/03/air-launched-decoys–the-need-is-growing.html

Cheers

The Aster is an excellent engineered system but the Russians do have more years of experienced in SAM development and are much more serious too due to the ridiculousness amount of money they put into them.

The “Breakmine” project was started in England in 1944, and the Bristol BloodHound was being delivered into RAF service at the same time that the S-25 Berkut (AKA SA-1 Guild) was being delivered into VVS regiments.

Cheers