The F-1-CKs could always switch sides which was what happened during the last time the Chinese civil war was “hot.”

The Taiwanese military has traditionally been the main supporter of pro-unification (under the KMT) sentiment on the island. Purges of the military leadership by the current party in power, the DPP, might have changed this but it also demoralized the officer corps to an extent that defection might be possible during war.

Americans complain about Pres. Chen’s lack of urgency in upgrading the Taiwanese military and don’t understand why. Among Taiwanese, though, an implicitly understood reason for the seeming reluctance is the DPP trusts the US military to fight for an independent Taiwan more so than the KMT-dominated Taiwanese one.

There are actually thousands of ROC Army (and other government) retirees living in China right now and receiving pension from the Taiwanese government with many more moving there as they retire.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/edit/archives/2001/09/09/102199

AT THE END of last month, President Chen Shui-bian (³¯¤ô«ó) invited a number of retired generals to a banquet as an early celebration of Armed Forces Day September 3. At the banquet, some of the generals put up huge posters bearing the characters: “Who to fight for?”and “What to fight for?”

In Taiwan, retired military generals get regular pensions until their death. And yet these generals don’t know who and what to fight for. It was clearly an insult to the president, the supreme commander of the armed forces.

In the Chiang Kai-shek (½±¤¶¥Û) era, these people would have been summarily executed. But Chen was magnanimous enough to shake hands with them beneath the posters.

Also, some retired generals recently went on a group tour to the PRC — a place they had viewed all their lives as an enemy state — to receive blessings from high-level communist officials. In Beijing, they reportedly made comments that were detrimental to Taiwan. Earlier, there was even news that some high-level retired officers from Taiwan took up military posts in the PLA.

It’s a complicated issue. It’s not as simple as two separate peoples fighting each other like Russians and Germans or Brits and Argies.

Or the nuclear artillery shell:

Following is from the 1953 Upshot/Keyhole tests in Nevada. The gun is a 280mm Mk-9.

Originally posted by Vympel
Another complete waste of time. Goddman this forum has deteriorated since the good ol days.

Bullcrappy 😀

I was here as BearCat in the “good old days” and lurked for far longer before that and I could say it was roughly as bad.

I dropped out after getting tired of the flaming and lurked once in a blue moon until the FC-1 thread lockings happened.

The “good ol days” were never as “good” as one thinks 😀

BTW, this thread is rather idiotic. Shoe should have just said F-CK-1 instead of this J-6.99.

But all of you know that he is just trying to be witty and misfiring so why make a big deal out of it?

We should have accepted by now that we have two eccentrics here who try very hard to be “cute” with hamburgers and J6.999 and whatever the F-(1)-CK they think is funny.

Great Burmese A-5 pict. I’m stealing it 😀

Hey Flex, you have any thing from Africa? I’m looking for Chinese planes in African colors like Tanzanian F-7s especially but any subsaharan stuff is interesting.

Re: Thats a very nice news

Originally posted by dirtyharry
China should deploy J10 right now and do more to facing India in southwest. India planned to buy 140 Mkis and maybe Backfire bombers, Mirage 2000/5s. China should do faster than India can finish her military explansion plans.
And India is using Agni missles target China’s city, China should do something to stop this!

The 44th is actually based along the Vietnamese border. The Indian border area is neither conducive to an air war nor even considered a high threat zone. It simply pales to insignificance from China’s standpoint when compared to Taiwan, Japan and the US on her east coast.

One of me earlier works.

Take that UFO!!!