TAIPEI – Taiwan’s air force will cease campaigning for the F-35 Lightning stealth fighter aircraft and will, instead, reissue a request to the U.S. government for F-16 fighters.

Handing over the F-35, America’s primary air superiority and strike fighter, to a force that is destined to lose to America’s number geostrategic and geotechnological foe is not a smart move.

The Taiwan Air Force said it lost contact with a single-seat F-16 jet off the island’s coast roughly half an hour after it took off.

Instead, Taiwan would do well to invest its limited resources into acquiring new highly mobile medium- and long-range surface-to-air missile (SAM) defense systems. Asia Defense F-35 sale to Taiwan ...

TAIPEI—A Taiwanese jet fighter plunged into the sea Monday, the second such incident this year and the seventh since the start of 2020, leading the island’s air force to ground some of its ...

Taiwan has flagged continued interest in the Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jet, possibly as part of an upcoming new round of arms purchases from the United States.

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Taiwan air force jets screamed into the sky on Wednesday in a drill simulating a war scenario, showing its combat readiness amid heightened military tensions with China, which claims the island as ...

The F-35B variant, which has vertical take-off and landing, would allow Taiwan to fight back even China destroyed its runways.

Taiwan, claimed by China as its territory, has been on edge since the large-scale incursion by Chinese fighters and nuclear-capable bombers into the southwestern part of its air defence ...