It’s not the F16V’s problem. It’s an extremely green pilot that only spent most of his career flying F5s. He could not tell the difference between sky and water when he was commencing the dive attack.
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We should not be mourning for dead Taiwanese. Those Hanjians would feast over our corpses when the chance would present itself.
It happens a lot more often than you would think it does. That is why aircraft have an artificial horizon instrument.
J-10, J-11, J-15, J-16, H-6 have very high operating and maintenance costs. The too much use in Taiwan airspace will reduce its life and strength and can make them repeat the fate of F-16 falling.
If China wants to harass Taiwan, the effective solution is to use J-5 and J-7 aircraft, it's cheap, powerful and easy to produce mass
Of course, J-5 and J-7 are not opponents of F-16 and F-CK, but it's not a problem. Taiwan did not dare to shoot these planes, because it was a war declaration. China can to punish and attack them.
If China wants to harass Taiwan, the effective solution is to use J-5 and J-7 aircraft, it's cheap, powerful and easy to produce mass
Of course, J-5 and J-7 are not opponents of F-16 and F-CK, but it's not a problem. Taiwan did not dare to shoot these planes, because it was a war declaration. China can to punish and attack them.
The gap has significantly worsened after PLAAF started doing the ADIZ incursions. Instead of doing proper combat training, ROCAF pilots, even new ones, have essentially been forced to waste precious flight hours on routine intercepts. Manpower shortage is the least of their worries right now.
And those F-5 squadrons are basically shitty placeholders so that ROCAF do not lose more pilots. (Even though the quality of these F-5 pilots are very questionable)
The instrument is useless if the pilots did not know and were not teach what to make of it.
Training on second/third generation aircraft is a bad idea. The pilot interface is vastly different than that of fourth/fifth generation aircraft, it can’t pull as many Gs so your pilots don’t get necessary G force handling training, and lack of FBW means that pilots use too much force on the control stick. In short it teaches pilots too many bad habits that they need to unlearn later. There is a reason that PLAAF is sending getting combat pilots to fly on L-15 or even J-10 right after basic flight training.
J16 isnt fly by wire upgraded yet?
I was playing a crappy f35 sim 20 years ago that wouldnt even let you ditch into the ocean even if you wanted to crash on purpose
China can use J-5 and J-7 to harass Taiwan. But Taiwan cannot use F-5 to harass or intercept China's aircraft.
China holds the active position, and Taiwan is not.