Hu Kaihong, Chairman of Taiwan Defense Contractor Han Xiang Airlines Hu KaihongIt is said that Taiwan expects the United States to support Taiwan to independently develop the next generation of fighters.
Comprehensive Taiwan United Daily News and Reuters reports that the Foreign Trade Association and the American and Taiwan Chamber of Commerce Association will hold the Taiwan American National Defense Industry Cooperation Forum on Wednesday (May 3).Hu Kaihong said in a speech on the forum that in terms of aviation industries such as fighters, Taiwan and the United States have cooperation opportunities, including new high education aircraft, new first-class preliminary teaching aircraft, next-generation fighters, F-16V fighter-related businesses, drones and other projects.They all have international cooperation opportunities.
Hu Kaihong pointed out that although core techniques such as the appearance design, structure settings, assembly, and flight control software of the high education machine case are developed by Taiwan, and the self -control rate is 55%, some key system parts still need to be purchased.
Hu Kaihong said that Taiwan expects the United States to support Taiwan's independent research and development, especially in terms of fighter engines, avionics systems, flight control, environmental control systems, etc.There are opportunities to cooperate in Taiwan and the United States.
Because of concerns, it will irritate Beijing. Most countries will not sell weapons to Taiwan, and even the United States, which often sells weapons in Taiwan, is reluctant to provide Taiwan's most advanced fighters, such as F-22 or F-F-35.This has prompted the Taiwan government to vigorously promote the construction of Taiwan machines, independently develop fighters, and seek to provide technology to Taiwan such as the United States, or buy parts from the United States.
Taiwan announced the next generation of fighter planes in 2017, including fighters with stealth technology, but Taiwan officials have not given details to the plan implementation.
At present, the Taiwan Air Force plans to complete the procurement of 66 brave eagle high-education machines by 2026 to replace the aging Taiwan-American combined AT-3 self-strong high-education machine and US-made F-5 fighter. Each brave eagleThe cost of high education aircraft was NT $ 68.6 billion (S $ 2.98 billion).At the same time, the Taiwan Army also plans to commission the Chinese Academy of Sciences to implement the development case of the new type of "junior trainer" from next six years from next year.These fighters will be manufactured by Hanxiang.
In response to the delivery time, Hu Kaihong said that in terms of new high -education aircraft, Hanxiang completed the tasks of each stage according to the project period. As of 2022In 2026, the case was completed all 66 delivery of the Air Force.
