May 20 has entered the countdown state, on May 20 Lai Qingde will be officially announced inauguration, and in order to celebrate Lai Qingde's inauguration, according to the plan, Taiwan Island will be in the sky over Taipei City to carry out a fighter jet flight display. The flight display will include Taiwan's three main air superiority fighters, the F-16V, the IDF and the Mirage 2000. In recent years, Taiwan has also continued to use various opportunities to show off its air fighters, but it must be known that Taiwan military fighters are currently shouldering very heavy combat readiness tasks, and to draw out such a large number of fighters for flight demonstrations will actually cause more Taiwan military pilots to fall into a state of exhaustion. On May 13, a pre-rehearsal of the air show was held on Taiwan Island, but the original air show scheduled for the pre-rehearsal was greatly reduced.
Judging from the video and photo footage released at the scene, only a number of helicopters participated in the rehearsal that day, according to the original plan, the rehearsal will be an all-element exercise, the so-called all-element exercise means that all types of fighters will participate in the training, but the reduction of the participation of other fighters on the island is also determined to be related to the bad weather conditions that day. The War Research Institute believes that if Taiwan's military planes are unable to complete their normal flight missions just because it is cloudy and rainy, then this once again shows that the combat readiness level of the Taiwan military is quite low.
In the past few days, a large number of PLA fighter planes have gone to the airspace around Taiwan Island to carry out combat patrol flights, and although Taiwan Island has long since changed its way of dealing with it, the War Research Institute believes that the PLA's intensive combat patrols still make many bases of the Taiwan military unstable, so it is very likely that the current air show on Taiwan Island is also very likely to be related to the PLA's intensive patrol operations. At the same time as the air show on the day of the 520 shrinkage on the island of Taiwan, the United States also had bad news again from the Kadena base in Okinawa, the first island chain. At present, in addition to the F-15C fighter jets deployed at the U.S. base in Kadena, F-16 fighters from South Dakota are also deployed at this base, in addition, the United States has also deployed a large number of F-22 stealth fighters at the Kadena base, and these fifth-generation aircraft are also to replace the F-35 stealth fighters to perform many tasks. The F-22s currently deployed by the United States at the Kadena base mainly come from two bases, including the Hawaii base.
On May 14, an F-22 stealth fighter deployed at the Kadena base had a landing gear break accident after taxiing out of the hangar, which was also the second recent landing gear accident involving the F-22 stealth fighter. Previously, during the military exercises in the United States, an F-22 stealth fighter broke off the landing gear after landing, and a fighter plane that was also deployed in Kadena had a similar accident with the F-22 stealth fighter in April this year, and again and again people couldn't help but speculate whether the F-22 stealth fighter had some kind of hidden danger. As the most expensive fighter in the U.S. military's combat sequence, the F-22 stealth fighter has even become the most involved in the U.S. military.
It is undeniable that the US military does have a large number of fighter planes and flies many at the same time, but is the proper rate of US fighters really good today? All kinds of accidents involving US fighter planes are now constantly being exposed by the media, which also shows that the US military has very limited maintenance capabilities for aircraft. Because many fighters have been in a state of long-term overdue service, this has also led to many fighters not being able to be well maintained, and due to the level of maintenance, it has led to a series of frequent accidents. Text/Iris