Taiwan Military

Those islands will be bombarded by MRLS/unguided rockets from the mainland &/ from the sea/air; then attack helos will strafe them before their marines land there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BM-30_Smerch
http://www.armyrecognition.com/april_2015_global_defense_security_news_uk/chinese_army_will_purchase_a300_mlrs_multiple_launch_rocket_system_using_gps_guidance.html

Would China Really Invade Taiwan?
This Is How the U.S. Thinks China Could Invade Taiwan
http://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/taiwangraphic1.png
produced by:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2049_Institute#Leadership- they have their own ax to grind!
Taiwan gets first F-16 Viper, maintenance center planned

Taiwan launches refurbished ex-US anti-sub frigates

https://www.janes.com/article/84490/taiwanese-navy-commissions-two-cheng-kung-class-frigates

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheng_Kung-class_frigate

Taiwan intends to abandon plans to purchase F-35B fighter jets and order additional F-16V

https://bmpd.livejournal.com/3432923.html

They r not Japan to be able to afford them, but her former colony. Their submarine fleet is as high, if not higher, priority.
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/what-comes-next-after-taiwans-elections-37382

Taiwan’s Mirage 2000s ‘need only 6 mins’ to intercept PLA warplanes
Yet since it was commissioned, Taiwan’s Mirage fleet has suffered from low operational readiness, high maintenance costs and higher-than-expected wear and tear, possibly due to the island’s subtropical climate.
If they "suffer" in subtropics, how the Rafales will avoid that in India?

Tsavo Lion wrote:Taiwan’s Mirage 2000s ‘need only 6 mins’ to intercept PLA warplanes
Yet since it was commissioned, Taiwan’s Mirage fleet has suffered from low operational readiness, high maintenance costs and higher-than-expected wear and tear, possibly due to the island’s subtropical climate.
If they "suffer" in subtropics, how the Rafales will avoid that in India?

Subtropical climat has an impact on all fighters. Indian su-30 included.

Those mirages won't intercept anything if a war starts. Chinese BM will destroy their airports in the first hours.

Subtropical climat has an impact on all fighters. Indian su-30 included.

But maybe more so on the French made 1s; Vietnam & Indonesia also have Su-27/-30s, but I never heard them suffering from hot & humid conditions.
OTH, Mirages were used mostly in temperate/desert climates, & AFAIK, they weren't deployed to tropical French Guiana/Polynesia to give the designers in their air conditioned offices a valuable feedback:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dassault_Mirage_III#Exports_and_license_production
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dassault_Mirage_5#Operators
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dassault_Mirage_2000#Operational_history
The RoCAF's Mirages have suffered from low operational readiness and high maintenance costs; the harsh environment and high operational tempo had caused higher-than-expected wear and tear. After the presence of cracks in the blades of the aircraft's engines were detected in 2009, Dassault worked with Taiwanese authorities to successfully rectify the issue and provided compensation for the engine damage. By the following year, normal training hours of 15 per month had resumed and the fleet's operational readiness had been restored, after having reportedly dropped to 6 hours per month because of the engine troubles. In addition to this issue, there were considerations of mothballing the entire Mirage fleet because of its high maintenance costs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dassault_Mirage_2000#Taiwan

I doubt that the Rafale won't be a deja vu!

In that case, perhaps they could get some 2nd hand birds & modernize them like Israel did with Kfirs, or buy Su-35s from Russia. at least it'll save them some $, for a change!

Taiwan’s KMT signals peace treaty with Beijing
Later, they may become an autonomy, with all foreign relations & defense matters relegated to Beijing. In the long run, their independence isn't viable, & they have a lot more to gain not pursuing it.

New Taiwan Yongying Combat Aircraft

On September 24, 2019, Taiwanese aerospace company Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC) in the presence of the President of the Republic of China, Cai Inwen, presented the first prototype of a nationally developed supersonic combat training aircraft, called Yongying [XT-5].





https://bmpd.livejournal.com/3784177.html

New Taiwan Cloud Leopard II armored personnel carrier tested

https://asiatimes.com/2020/04/taiwan-on-guard-against-new-cases-from-military/?utm_source=The+Daily+Report&utm_campaign=fdb7f68855-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_04_21_11_29&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1f8bca137f-fdb7f68855-31607385&mc_cid=fdb7f68855&mc_eid=5455568640

The SM-34 armored personnel carrier goes into service with the Taiwan Army

The first flight of the new Taiwan combat trainer XT-5 Yongying

https://asiatimes.com/2020/08/taiwan-to-boost-invasion-defenses-with-us-weapons/

https://asiatimes.com/2020/08/china-ups-ante-as-us-support-bolsters-taiwan/?mc_cid=d11a42f666&mc_eid=5455568640


https://www.russiadefence.net/t2840p100-china-military-and-geopolitics#292167

They may already have nukes ready: https://nvo.ng.ru/gpolit/2020-08-07/8_1103_coldwar.html?print=Y

US plans to supply Taiwan with HIMARS and SLAM-ER missile systems

As Reuters reported on October 12, 2020 , the US government has sent three notifications to the US Congress "in recent days" about upcoming deliveries of new weapons systems to Taiwan through the US Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program of intergovernmental foreign military sales. Collins Aerospace MS-110 suspended reconnaissance container proposed for sale to Taiwan on advertising image for Lockheed Martin F-16 (c) UTC Aerospace Systems (Collins Aerospace)

The delivery to Taiwan includes Lockheed Martin HIMARS ground-based missile systems, Boeing AGM-84H SLAM-ER air tactical cruise missiles, and Collins Aerospace MS-110 suspended reconnaissance containers. The latter two systems are designed to equip the Taiwanese Air Force's Lockheed Martin F-16V Block 70 fighters, which are being upgraded and planned for delivery.

The exact figures and monetary amounts of the volumes of the proposed deliveries have not been disclosed. Characteristically, these notifications to Congress were not publicly published on the website of the US Department of Defense's Defense Cooperation Agency (DSCA).

Reuters also reports that a total of seven agreements on potential arms sales to Taiwan through the FMS are in the process of approval in the US administration, and in the near future notifications of three more of them may be sent to Congress - for the supply of coastal mobile anti-ship missile systems with missiles to Taiwan. Boeing Harpoon Block II, unmanned aerial vehicles (probably referring to the four General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper UAVs, which Taiwan had previously applied for) and sea mines.

As for the acquisition of HIMARS missile systems by Taiwan, it is worth noting that they may include not only corrected GMLRS missiles, but also ATACMS operational-tactical missiles, as well as promising American PrSM missiles, the range of which is planned to be increased to 700-800 km with the addition of them anti-ship capabilities.

Aviation cruise missiles SLAM-ER, as previously reported, were ordered by Saudi Arabia, for which it is resuming the production of these missiles at the plant in St. Louis. As you can see now, the resumption of production of SLAM-ER under the Saudi contract opened the way for export deliveries of these missiles to other customers, as a kind of less "politically sensitive" version of the aviation CD in comparison with the JASSM missile.

The MS-110 suspended "multispectral" reconnaissance container was first introduced by UTC Aerospace Systems (now Collins Aerospace) in 2017 as an upgraded and slightly smaller version of the DB-110 reconnaissance container.

https://bmpd.livejournal.com/4163098.html