in 1988, the us coast guard retrofitted its falcon 20 "guardian" patrol jet with afterburners, making it the only aircraft of its type ever modified that way
Although🇺🇸U.S. Has the largest stealth fleet of 1200 F-35 Fighters,🇨🇳China is closing the gap fast.
In 2025 alone, Beijing pumped out 120 J-20s with the help of “Dark Factories”, with over 350+ J-20s in service.
Half of the F-35s go to US allies, but all J-20s go to PLAAF.
Trump on Taiwan:
“The Chinese just don’t want to see this place — we’ll call it a place, because nobody knows how to define it — but they don’t want to see it go independent.
I’d like to see everybody making chips in Taiwan come over to us in America.
I’m not looking to have somebody go independent. And, you know, are we supposed to travel 9,500 miles to fight a war? I’m not looking for that.
When you look at the odds, China is a very, very powerful and big country. That’s a very small island.
Think of it; it’s 59 miles away. We’re 9,500 miles away. That’s a little bit of a difficult problem.
If you look at the history, Taiwan was developed because we had presidents that didn’t know what the hell they were doing. They stole our chip industry”
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