F-35A is $200 million per copy including spares and weapons. Affordability won't be a problem for us by 2020 if the U.S is willing to sell. If the U.S is willing to sell nuke reactors to us, F-35A shouldn't be a problem.
Considering Taiping island is 2000 km away from Taiwan, Vietnam should take preemptive surprise strike at this island to take back what belongs to us. Our Son Ca island is a new nautical miles away from Taiping so we can send our special forces (who can easily swim 20 km) to land on Taiping for...
The Chinese robbed our Paracel Island at gunpoint in 1974 while we were in our civil war. Yet, this same people who believe in might is right are still crying, whining, and begging the Japanese for an official apology for rapping them during WW2
Do you have the full paid subscription article? Can you paste the entire article here? The WSJ tend to have very accurate news as I remember it was the first to break the news about Vietnam and U.S were negotiating on nuclear cooperation
Are you taunting us?:sniper:
Considering the position of the standoff is about 250 km away from Vietnam's coast; your navy is not in a very good shape my friend. Our shore-based AShM like Shaddock (550 km), Yakhont (300 km), and possibly the Kh-35 (280 km) can send your surface fleet to the...
What do you mean by "direct support"? Fighting on behalf of Vietnam?
No, all we need is the U.S to lift the arms embargo on us so we can buy their advanced weaponries. We'll always do the fighting ourselves. If we get to buy the F-35, not only that we have total control over the South China...
I'm all for these chinaclowns to impose "sanction" on us. They are earning $24 billion usd of trade surplus from us each year; that's an equivalent of 1/10 of the trade surplus that they earn from America.