PC/WI: AIDC Ching-Kuo Combat Aircraft funded by other Asian nations?

WILDGEESE

Gone Fishin'
With a post 1980 pod, get Taiwan's AIDC Ching-Kuo combat aircraft to be co-developed/funded plus liscence built by other Asian nations such as Indonesia, Phillipines, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand in the same way as the Eurofighter Typhoon project.

Bonus points if you get Japan and S.Korea to join the project.

Regards filers
 
It's quite expensive and the outcome is always questionable when you build an indigenous industry to build an indigenous fighter aircraft, hardware and systems. China doesn't care for Taiwan much, so the US wouldn't sell F-20s or F-16s to Taiwan. They did to Thailand and Singapore, and they did sell F-16s to Taiwan after a flip-flop of political will. The F-20 died. The Ching-Kuo was a copy, done on the sly, while Eurofighter was an original state of the art, so there's no comparison. Countries living in the shadow of the PRC are unlikely to build a copy in cahoots with an enemy of the Elephant. We need a friendlier warm and fuzzy PRC, and if so, let's just buy F-16s.
 
Perhaps have the Taiwanese government go in with Israel on the Lavi, then expand the project from there. If the development is fast enough, and its sold well enough, India would be a possibility for a third development partner. The Israelis have been pretty successful in getting Indian contracts after all. Then after the jet is developed bring the other ASEAN countries in as customers, possibly with licenses. The named countries don't have an aircraft industry so i don't think that they would buy into a development project, although the South Koreans might...
 
South Korea can't participate in Taiwanese Ching-Kuo because south korea is mutually dependent on trade with the mainland china.
 
Unless something plunges China deep enough in the sinkhole for other countries to be assured enough to fund the plane, it's not going to happen.
 
Top