>Lockmart has offered to transfer entire F-16 production line (incl tooling) to India
>Taiwan has desperate need for modern fighters and their local designs like Ching Kuo are inadequate
Why not just sell the F-16 production line to Taiwan? It will definitely not be compromised immediately to China by and even if it was, it is last generation technology.
Taiwan has ample opportunity and money to BUY fighters but are naturally idiots.
This. Taiwan is both moronic and lazy. I almost want China to invade at this point, one is moronic and aggressive, the other is moronic and passive, it'll be the most hilarious war in human history.
I am Lee from Taiwan and I agree this post. I very demoralized and want China invading.
>Taiwan has ample opportunity and money to BUY fighters but are naturally idiots.
Nope, they can't. Pretty much only country that is in position to sell fighters to Taiwan is 'murrica. China is economically too important for anyone else to risk their trade relations. That is the very reason why they still have couple WWII era submarines in their navy and no-one making diesel electric submarines is willing sell 'em modern replacements.
They renamed it for Indian marketing likely because when they sold F-16's Pakistan, they may have agreed not to sell F-16's to India.
has offered to transfer entire F-16 production line (incl tooling) to India
hello OP, I see you're from several years in the past, if you are communicating from the past I should warn you of a global pandemic which will be a pain in the ass for a while.
if you communication from the present then lmao
they still a shit load of Block 70 on order and building them in the relatively small place you're trying to defend isn't ideal
what LM offered back then to india was called block 70
but that version has nothing to do quite literally with what is now the block 70
they renamed it few years ago to f21 essentially its an f16 with the whole avionics package of the f35 eots excluded since its on the form of sniper xr
I meant for Taiwan, since that was the question OP asked about
Despite this new, it was disgusting to see America still refusing to donate some F-16s or at least couple squadron worth of F-15s for Philippines for free.
Philippines is a pious Christian nation who's currently under siege from godless Chinese communist from the north and satanic islamist Indog and Malyshit from the south. How come America. Who claimed as a nation of Jesus Christ refusing to help another Christian nation in need?
Did America disgustingly forgotten the sacrifice of millions of Filipinos lives saving America lives and interest in World War II, Korea and Vietnam? Won't even hurt American economy if they gives some hardware to suffering Filipinos for free just like they're helping their Ukranian Christian brethren.
TF is wrong with Filipino on /k/? Everytime they are posting it's all about "Plz donate", "Christian country", "Indon and Malay bad", "rescuing American in WW2, Korea and Vietnam" every single time.
Why does your country not stand up to China more? Is it because maybe you all are gay and homosexual?
Because Duterte wasnt as based as people believed and wanted to buddy up with China and Russia
>Philippines is a pious Christian nation who's currently under siege from godless Chinese communist from the north and satanic islamist Indog and Malyshit from the south. How come America. Who claimed as a nation of Jesus Christ refusing to help another Christian nation in need?
The Philippines is an authoritarian dictatorship and has been getting too close to the CCP lately
The Philippines is not to be trusted, no free country should trust countries like the Philippines
We must be more cautious and prudent because we could be favoring our enemies
>another Christian nation
I hate to break it to you but America is not and has never been a Christian nation. It is and always has been a Luciferian freemasonic colony. The people in it may be more or less Christian, but our rulers are black magicians of the lowest order.
Touch grass, christcuck LARPer
What the frick kinda false flag larp is this? Whatever handful of flips who end up in 4chins dont type or even think this way. Any delusional impoverished flip who'd slithered out of some ramshackle Manila favela shed and touched a keyboard only know of four websites: Face Book, YouTube and Tick-Tock. They wouldn't be here.
Is this some concerted effort by to discredit flips on the internet? Admittedly, such an activity is rather deserved what with all the moronic limpBlack person shit our country's been pulling on the world stage, not even really mad but I'm genuinely curious as to why or what's the point.
t.flip
Anon you must be new here and it glows
Please never stop making these posts. I love finding them
will they redeem?
As much as you wanna arm Taiwan with the latest weapons its not possible to have them crewed with sufficient manpower as the conscription system cannot be used for pilots.
They just plain don't have the manpower to crew these new jets without retooling their mainline jet pilots which given in a precarious position cannot have half its forces retooled at any one time without sacrifices to its own defense
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-04/taiwan-faces-urgent-fighter-pilot-shortage-as-xi-tests-defenses
>Lockmart
Makes me think of a walmart where they exclusively sell high end military vehicles.
>Lockmart has offered to transfer entire F-16 production line (incl tooling) to India
With the production line, you mean the factories and facilities that manufacture the parts of the F-16 fighters, right?
If that is the case, I think it would be a good idea to move it to Taiwan because it could fortify Taiwan's air team but there are several drawbacks such as Chinese spies in Taiwan that are allowed to be sold for a few dollars to the CCP
if you cant make cash winning a technological arms race against your adversaries due to your designs being superior to what they can produce, why not drip feed the "enemy" just enough to cause panic among the DOD figureheads and normalgays to secure funding and continued usefulness to create the next generation.
by giving it to india it probably adds a "Time-delay fuse" to the tech proliferation, id say there is a big difference to stolen documents, specs, prints, payed informants, and all that corporate espionage shit youd have to do in india compared to practically being given EVERYTHING from the git.
finding some indians that like the chinese, and getting them to sell state secrets might be harder than just replacing a couple bugmen in a taiwan factory.
Over 10% of the engineers from Taiwan work in the neigbouring Chinese province on the mainland. The free part of China that makes Amerimutts butthurt
Taiwan has the second worst demographics after Korea iirc, not a good investment. It’s the same reason why they want to build their TSMC fabs outside of Taiwan
At the end its better to invest now in Taiwan than later, the more Taiwan can stand on their own, the less the US need to invest when China spergs out. And if Taiwan falls, have fun with the bills to invest in the entire Pacific theatre because they will not stop here. You open the box of pandora and then what next? Withdraw from Okinawa and South Korea after Chinese demand? Left Japan to the Chinese?
Also its a good investment to crash China itself.
Are you a bot?
Because in a case of invasion Lockmart don't want their tooling and blueprints falling to China's hands.
Also Taiwan simply don't want to fight but having America do it for them.
there is absolutely nothing about the F-16 that every world power doesn't know about. i'm pretty sure russia unironically has their hands on some that they may or may not be using as aggressors for training just as they did with F-5's.
It still a valid concern.
Your point is just "what if", what if is better than "we're certain China has F-16 blueprints and tooling for manufacturing".
>Lockmart has offered to transfer entire F-16 production line (incl tooling) to India
Despite this India still prefers the Rafale.
Topkek Lockmart's seethe is truly something else.
Why not try not to sell indians the same jet as Pakistan maybe?
Corruption and treason.
Anyone advocating for production transfer to India or South America should be investigated thoroughly. India has openly communicated that they're not interested in anything else but waging war on neighboring countries.
Plant should be moved to a friendly country like Poland or Australia or one where they need jobs like Italy or Turkey.