AIDC Maintains Fighter Ambitions While Expanding Uncrewed Systems Role

AIDC T-5 advanced jet trainer

AIDC's T-5 advanced jet trainer on display at the Taipei Aerospace & Defense Technology Exhibition 2025.

Credit: Chen Chuanren/Aviation Week Network
TAIPEI, Taiwan—Taiwan’s Aerospace Industrial Development Corp. (AIDC) says it is not abandoning its ambitions to design and build crewed aircraft, including a next-generation fighter, even as the company pivots to support uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) programs prioritized by the government. At the...
Chen Chuanren

Chen Chuanren is the Southeast Asia and China Editor for the Aviation Week Network’s (AWN) Air Transport World (ATW) and the Asia-Pacific Defense Correspondent for AWN, joining the team in 2017.

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