The Taiwan Air Force can't carry it anymore

On the evening of August 7, the Taiwan Defense Department announced that as of 17 pm on the same day, the PLA sent a total of 66 fighters and 14 sub -warships to continue training activities around the Taiwan Strait, and partly crossed the so -called "Strait Mid -line". As far as the scale of the military aircraft dispatched by the People's Liberation Army is only 68 on the 5th.

Facing the powerful PLA's sea and air forces, the Taiwan Air Force could not carry it.

Many island media have recently quoted Bloomberg reports that the Taiwan Air Force has increasingly frequently dispatched fighter aircraft "intercepting the PLA fighter", but exposed the fatal problem of the pilot's serious shortage.

Taiwan Zhongshi News Network said on the 6th that the Taiwan authorities purchased 66 F-16V fighters from Lockheed Martin, the United States two years ago. According to the plan, the Taiwan Air Force needed to increase at least 100 pilots to drive these fighters in 2026.

However, according to the current speed of training pilots, Taiwan may take up to 50 years to have enough personnel to drive these fighters. It is reported that from 2011 to 2019, the Taiwan Air Force only added a total of 21 new F-16 pilots. According to the data provided by Taiwan's "Liberty Times", although the Taiwan F-16 fighter pilots have added 120 people since 2011, there are 108 people who have retreated, so there are only 21 pilots. "The cockpit ratio of the Taiwan Air Force fighter is only 1.33, and at least 110 people must be reached at least 110 people in NATO."

It is said that Taiwan requires fighter pilots to receive 250 hours of flight training before driving front-line fighters similar to F-16. This year, there were four crashing accidents, including the F-16 crash of January. Zhang Yanting, the "former deputy commander" of the Taiwan Air Force, believes that insufficient training is one of the main reasons for such accidents.

Judging from the case of the F-16V fighter that crashed, the Taiwan Air Force stipulated that there should be a flight training of 3 machines in 400 hours and 3 stages before flying first fighters, and then replaced it into a main fighter, but the crash pilot Eason Chan only flew for 260 hours and only after 260 hours. Replace F-16. "Eason Chan is 3 hours a month after the F-16 is replaced, and it takes at least 15 hours a month according to the NATO standard."

The Taiwan media concluded that the current Taiwan Air Force faces three major dilemmas such as declining childization, high myopia rate, pilot and flight training time. In addition, the PLA has increased since its 2019 training. The instructor has no time to teach young pilots, and the training hours are also compressed.

According to data from the "Ministry of Defense" in Taiwan, there were about 960 military aircraft "around Taiwan" last year, and about 380 times in 2020. It is reported that the PLA did not only to show military power, but also forced Taiwan to intercept fighter aircraft, delay the ability of the Taiwan Air Force training to train new pilots, and then weaken the Taiwan Army's ability in actual conflict.

"From the decline in the birth rate of the population, to the many high -profile crash, a series of factors have hindered Taiwan's efforts to recruit and train more pilots." Zhang Yanting said that with the continuity of this situation, Taiwan has been in Taiwan in recent years. The crash accident in the Air Force is just the tip of the iceberg, and the future may be worse.

Source: No. 10 of the Privy Institute/Old Driver Ma Shitu

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