It was designed and built for air warfare in Europe. It doesn’t have the legs for a Pacific war, where unrefueled ranges of 1000+ miles are needed.
“It was designed and built for air warfare in Europe. It doesn’t have the legs for a Pacific war, where unrefueled ranges of 1000+ miles are needed.”
Then let Taiwan pay to develop the F-47 or let Taiwan buy a lot of F-35s and build robust concrete hangers near straight paths of Taiwanese roads.
Perhaps we could build islands in Philippine waters Chinese-style for less cost than F-47 development and procurement.