Taiwan Scraps Advanced Defense Fighter Program

taiwan IDF

Taiwan had expected the ADF would succeed the country's F-CK-1 Indigenous Defense Fighter.

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SINGAPORE—Taiwan has decided to shelve its Advanced Defense Fighter (ADF) program, saying the country’s military primes do not possess sufficiently matured technologies to proceed with the design, development and integration of key elements. Taiwanese National Defense Minister Wellington Koo told...
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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