Obama has decided upon cheap flip flops as the national priority
Obama rules out new F-16s for Taiwan
“All we’ve been told is the president has made a decision, and I assume it will be for the F-16 A/B upgrade package,” said a senior congressional aide close to the issue.
The president decided against selling Taiwan 66 new advanced F-16 C/D model aircraft, despite several requests from Taipei and Congress, the officials said.
The F-16 A/B is a product of 1970’s design. It will be going up against THESE:
The SU-35 … a generation 4.5 fighter created by the Soviet Union and Russia to defend and defeat against the F-15E Strike Fighter
The Chinese Stealth Fighter a surprise development based on cyber theft from the F-22 and F-35
The J-10, a Chinese manufactured copy of the Israeli Lavi, designed to outperform and defeat F-16 generation USSR and Russia produced aircraft
And all this against the IL-76 AEW aircraft the Chinese fly which guides the much larger number of fighters against the venerable F-16.
I am reminded of American flyers and Australians trying to defend against the Mitsubishi Type Zero in 1942 in the Brewster Buffalo.
Another American ally weakened substantially by this perpetually ill advised, ideologically guided, irresponsible admin.
How would you like to be Benjamin Netanyahu this week?
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