The Air Force of the Armed Forces stood against the Russian Federation, and Taiwanese will not be able to against China: the media indicated the reason

Russia had a significant advantage - hundreds of deployed military aircraft and thousands of winged and ballistic missiles, which was why many expected that the Ukrainian brigades would not survive the first hours of the war, but they survived and in 3 years still strike and reflect attacks. "It was an incredible feat. Will the Taiwan armed with the Air Force will be able to repeat it? Almost probably not.

The geography and scale of the Chinese threat will be more complex for Taiwan Air Force and its 400 fighters," the publication says. The Air Force escaped initial bombing because they sprayed planes, ammunition and staff away from large airbazes at civilian aerodromes and were constantly moving. Ukrainian flight crews have adhered to this practice throughout the war, but in cases of negligent attitude to the dispersal, they lost planes.

"Even with the constant vigilance that Ukrainians could not support, Taiwans may not cope with the approaching Chinese missiles. Geography limits the dispersion," says Eric Heginbotam, a leading researcher at the Massachuseta Institute of Security Studies and Specialist. Ukraine is 20 times larger than Taiwan by area and has much more aerodromes: more than 900, compared to about 50 Taiwan. This limits the potential of much larger Taiwanese air forces to survive by spraying.

"China can maintain a large -scale and almost continuous rocket bombing that would effectively neutralize most, if not everyone, Taiwan Air Force - at least for the first two weeks," the analyst says. Because of this, the California Analytical Center Rand has long been in favor of spending less money to buy fighters and more money on ground air defense, which should be easier to hide in Taiwan's rough terrain.

China's missile troops will be overloaded with difficult tasks, which will give the Taiwan units for some time. According to The Strategist, in view of all this, it would be madness from Taiwan to count on their extremely vulnerable military-air forces, focused on a small number of bases to save the island from the invasion of the Chinese army. "When supporters of Taiwan's defense reform are begging for the government to spend more money on rockets and drones.