Featured BREAKING: Taiwan signs deal to buy 66 F-16 jets from US defence giant Lockheed Martin

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[Gangetic]

66 more targets for the PLAAF.

 

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Taiwan formally signed an agreement to buy 66 of the latest model F-16 jets built by Lockheed Martin Corp., a move likely to further inflame tensions between the U.S. and China.

Taiwan’s purchase of the F-16s marks the first sale of advanced fighter jets to the island since President George H.W. Bush announced approval for 150 F-16s in 1992. A $62 billion figure announced by the Pentagon on Friday is the upper limit of numerous contracts if all potential foreign customers placed their maximum desired number over the decade.

The move is likely to be denounced by Beijing, even though the U.S. first signaled its plans to approve the sale a year ago in an informal notification to Congress and it could still be years before the jets are delivered.

The announcement said that work on the 90 jets potentially to be sold under Friday’s announcement would be complete by late 2026.

Company officials have previously said they project a market for as many as 400 of the new F-16s.

When the planned sale was announced in August last year, a spokeswoman for China’s Foreign Ministry told reporters that “U.S. arms sales to Taiwan severely violate the one-China principle.”

The spokeswoman, Hua Chunying, said at the time that her government was urging the U.S. to “refrain” from selling the “fighter jets to Taiwan and stop arms sales to, and military contact with, Taiwan. Otherwise, the Chinese side will surely make strong reactions, and the U.S. will have to bear all the consequences.”

Since then, ties with the U.S. have only frayed further, with the two nations in a series of disputes ranging from the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic to 5G technology and Beijing’s tightening grip over Hong Kong.

In addition to Taiwan, Morocco is buying 24 F-16s jets in the first traunch of 90 aircraft that the Pentagon said was valued at $4.9 billion. The Pentagon announcement didn’t name Taiwan or Morocco, but they have been identified in a previous statement and were confirmed Friday by a person familiar with the contract.

The new F-16s are being assembled at Lockheed’s new facility in Greenville, South Carolina, which opened in April 2019. The contracting mechanism used by the Pentagon “will facilitate faster contract awards and greater pricing clarity for our foreign military partners,” Brian Brackens, an Air Force spokesman, said in a statement to Bloomberg News before the contract announcement.

“Taiwan and Morocco are expected to be the first two partner nations that will utilize this contract,” Brackens said.

The Taiwan F-16s will be equipped with a top-line fire control radar made by Northrop Grumman Corp. Called the APG-83, it would allow precision-guided munitions to be fired at greater distances, said an official familiar with the details.

Lockheed Chief Financial Officer Kenneth Possenriede told analysts on a July 21 earnings call that the company was anticipating a “quite large” F-16 order “that should get announced sometime this quarter” in which “the marquee customer is Taiwan.”

The additional 90 F-16s would add to to Lockheed’s current 38-aircraft backlog.

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[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

No F-35?

 

[EpiiC]

No F-35?

F-35 will be compromised by Communist China spies in Taiwan. More than Taiwan willingly compromising itself thats the fear US has, and has decided against selling F-35, but they will give them the best version of F-16, 4.5 gen .

 

[Khan vilatey]

I think a demonstration of Chinese military might against India is now needed

kv

 

[damm1t]

66 is a number to consider seriously but more importantly Usa and Taiwan simply challenge and scraps China's sovereignity claims on Taiwan. So what will be China's answer to this?

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

J-10C is superior to F-16V and on top of that J-20 is a beast that trashes any F-16 out there.

 

[Ultima Thule]

J-10C is superior to F-16V and on top of that J-20 is a beast that trashes any F-16 out there.

J-10C is not superior but may on par, they have decades of experience to design and develop avionics/ AESA and other system and China is relatively new comer o this field

 

[52051]

What an utter waste of money for this kind of overpriced piece of junk that could not even last for a few hours in a war with China

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

J-10C is not superior but may on par, they have decades of experience to design and develop avionics/ AESA and other system and China is relatively new comer o this field

J-10C has DSI. F-16 does not. As a result, J-10C has better aerodynamics and lower RCS than F-16. J-10C has wide angle holographic HUD F-16V lacks. On top of that, PL-15 has ramjet which makes it more efficient than AMRAAM.

 

[bolo]

What an utter waste of money for this kind of overpriced piece of junk that could not even last for a few hours in a war with China

A lot of Taiwanese work in China. president "She" of Taiwan can tax these ungrateful Taiwanese to pay for the fighters

 

[Ultima Thule]

J-10C has DSI. F-16 does not. As a result, J-10C has better aerodynamics and lower RCS than F-16. J-10C has wide angle holographic HUD F-16V lacks. Also, J-10C's AESA is a beast = F-16V's AESA.

What a stupid logic you have DSI doesn't make superior and F-16 has S shape intake to reduce RCS, And does F-35 haven't a HUD also but its consider best 5h gen jet in the world, HUD doesn't make jet superior
And please tell us how do you know J-10C AESA is better than F-16V AESA you blind pathetic shit

 

[Ultima Thule]

J-10C has DSI. F-16 does not. As a result, J-10C has better aerodynamics and lower RCS than F-16. J-10C has wide angle holographic HUD F-16V lacks. On top of that, PL-15 has ramjet which makes it more efficient than AMRAAM.

F-16 have a S intake to reduce its RCS, and do you know what is DSI for

 

[Ultima Thule]

J-10C has DSI. F-16 does not. As a result, J-10C has better aerodynamics and lower RCS than F-16. J-10C has wide angle holographic HUD F-16V lacks. On top of that, PL-15 has ramjet which makes it more efficient than AMRAAM.

HUD is functions is utilized by Pilots Visor, Just like in F-35
and What is the Fcuk you talking about PL-15, PL-15 is not using Ramjet but dual pulse rocket motor, and do research before you bark here