Taiwan military’s stealth fighters dream
I figure it would be better to post this here than to start a new one.
Google translated from http://hi.baidu.com/liliqun/blog/item/37137bcb2759b21cbe09e698.html. It has a what-if image if a ROK fighter on the page too. The article is a year old. Also talks about other asian fighter projects.
Taiwan military’s stealth fighters dream
Taiwan’s “Vice Defense Minister” Ko Cheng Heng told the media last year said that Taiwan’s current plans to purchase 66 F-16C / D fighters and equipment is only transitional. In other words, Taiwan’s ultimate aim is to obtain the arms purchase more advanced F-35. Is the island’s media believe that once the war with the mainland, the Air Force runway is very likely serious damage to the circumstances, a vertical / short-range capability of taking off and landing F-35 on the Taiwan Air Force is very attractive. U.S. think tank, Defense Information Centre Strauss Military Reform Project Director, the former Congress of the military budget experts said Weile, F-35 suitable for ground attack, air combat capability is relatively weak. Even with the F-35, the Taiwan Air Force will not benefit from it too much. Other experts also believe that the United States, the United States do not want to “the wrath of Beijing” and fear of cross-strait reunification after the advanced fighter technology transfer to the mainland, Taiwan finally be the possibility of F-35 low.
However, in recent years repeatedly rebuffed fighter procurement plan at the same time, Taiwan’s next generation fighter planes since the research programme is conducted in secret. According to Canada in 2006, “Han and defense comments” report, Taiwan has been in stealth fighters paint has been made a breakthrough. November 27, 2006, “Xiangsheng” fighter (IDF improved, after changed its name to “Eagle”) first public test flight when one code-named “Black Wolves” of the Taiwan military’s stealth aircraft inadvertently become a pilot Outside the focus of attention. In fact, Taiwan’s armed forces since 1995, began a stealth technology development, and the plan named “Lushan plan.” However, due to the “CAS” has failed to satisfactory results, the whole scheme has been no progress. In view of this, Taiwan’s armed forces also began in 2004 called “Black Wolves” stealth plan by the island’s major aircraft manufacturers AIDC companies.
According to participate in the scheme of a technical staff to the “Taiwan Strait military situation” – that the core of the project is known as a dielectric coating of absorbing the development, at present, only the United States and Britain have the technology. With countries around the world commonly used by the invisible magnetic coating compared Dielectric coatings with light weight, high chemical stability, high heat resistance and absorbing the advantages of greater bandwidth. Nearly three years, the Taiwan Air Force to the Chingchuankang in Taichung base for the test site, under conditions of strict confidentiality, AIDC companies for 0825 a number of AT-3 jet trainer aircraft as a platform for stealth test 40 times The test flight. It is said that the use of such paint coating machines after all, AT-3 contacts increased by only 140 kilograms, was found to detect distance from 35 knots to 20 knots and this means that the clock aerial combat aircraft were detected in Taiwan’s armed forces The time will be postponed to 44 seconds. Taiwan’s armed forces that wait until the technology is mature, will be applied to the “Eagle” fighter, as well as Taiwan’s other weapons and equipment.
Hard to read through the babelfish speak, but it talks about a future indigenous ROKAF stealth fighter. Anything else know anything about it or is this just idle speculation?
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