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Extremely Rare Photos Inside Taiwan’s Underground Fighter Jet Caves
The War Zone ^ | 7/26/2022 | Emma Helfrich

Posted on 07/26/2022 8:37:09 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan

The Taiwanese Air Force, also known as the Republic of China Air Force, or ROCAF, has uncharacteristically released photos of weapons loading operations that were carried out in the highly-fortified underground cave-like complex connected to Chiashan Air Force Base. The photos offer a very rare look inside the subterranean tunnel network that houses some of the ROCAF’s most capable fighter jets, including the recently upgraded F-16V Viper that can be seen in the images being armed with Harpoon anti-ship missiles.

The ROCAF posted a photo set of the weapons loading exercise on Facebook this morning, writing that the practice is related to day two of the annual military Han Kuang Exercise. A rough machine translation of the post elucidates that the subjects in the photos, who are said to be part of the ROCAF’s 5th Tactical Composite Wing, were demonstrating their ability to both replenish an aircraft’s ammunition and ready it for takeoff in a particular timeframe. While the official ROCAF post doesn’t name the specific aircraft used during the exercise, an F-16 Viper is clearly the platform being armed.

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To: Right Wing Vegan

That’s a nice dam you have there, it would be a shame if something were to happen to it.


21 posted on 07/26/2022 10:34:29 PM PDT by jpsb
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

“ Does anyone know if Taiwan has developed nuclear weapons over the years?”
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Whoever knows ain’t tellin’.


22 posted on 07/26/2022 10:57:13 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX!)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

You’d be surprised how much world order Trump would immediately bring to the table. That’s assuming the idiots and traitors in DC don’t blow the world up first.


23 posted on 07/26/2022 11:33:41 PM PDT by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Can they be launched out the cave door?


24 posted on 07/27/2022 12:15:06 AM PDT by deks
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To: Zhang Fei
The Brits would likely be in, perhaps partly due to the ChiCom double cross on HK, a little revenge on their part. PRC, that is, Politically Repressive Canada, aka Canaduh? Most likely not, at least not as long as the man-child dictator Prime Mistake True-dolt is in charge.

Here is what the 50 year old teenage girl thin skinned narcissist dictator said in 2013, when asked which country he admires after Canada. His/hers/its (must be inclusive, doncha know) answer was, "There’s a level of admiration I actually have for China. Their basic dictatorship is actually allowing them to turn their economy around on a dime and say, ‘We need to go green, we want to start investing in solar’.“There’s a level of admiration I actually have for China. Their basic dictatorship is actually allowing them to turn their economy around on a dime and say, ‘We need to go green, we want to start investing in solar’." (The quote begins at 0:39, of the fawning news story.)

Taiwan shouldn't expect any help from Canaduh, at least not under juvenile dictator Justin Castreau.

25 posted on 07/27/2022 12:25:06 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian ( Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

bkmk


26 posted on 07/27/2022 1:28:37 AM PDT by sauropod (Unbelief has nothing to say. Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

📂


27 posted on 07/27/2022 1:53:07 AM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18)
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To: hardspunned
WWIII avoided?

It is a misake to assume war always involves shooting. It doesn't.

2,500 years ago, Sun Tzu spoke of how the best war is one won off the traditional field of battle.

WWIII is raging in America right now and, from all appearances, the enemy is winning.

Even our military is being defeated by those fighting under the flag of the rainbow.

28 posted on 07/27/2022 3:46:21 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: logi_cal869

12hrs if the US gets involved under Biden.


29 posted on 07/27/2022 4:10:41 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: RoosterRedux

I understand what you’re saying. Donald Trump was fighting WWIII with China and was winning before they released the bio attack on us. That was most definitely an act of war. The point I was making was that Trump could manage to keep the war economic and cultural, not the war Biden/Global, Inc. will stumble us into where everyone you ever knew ends up dead.


30 posted on 07/27/2022 4:13:17 AM PDT by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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To: hardspunned
Oh, I completely agree. Trump is absolutely necessary.

He is a flame thrower and thermobaric bomb combined. That's why he is so despised by our enemies within and without.

31 posted on 07/27/2022 4:36:56 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Built into the mountainside near Chiashan Air Force Base in Hualien is a network of tunnels that lead to fortified underground hangars that serve as a sanctuary for some of the ROCAF’s fleet of fighter jets.

Is that too much info?


32 posted on 07/27/2022 4:53:28 AM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives. Leftists are genocidal. )
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To: gundog

......watching those “Load Toads” doing their thing brings back memories...and those weapons that are being loaded on to those wing weapons pylons are the real thing, not inert or practice weapons...I like those “jammers” they are using...very neat looking...


33 posted on 07/27/2022 5:08:28 AM PDT by TokarevM57
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To: TokarevM57

Looks like a laboratory. I remember the weapons crews working with improvised lighting. And mosquitos.


34 posted on 07/27/2022 5:44:18 AM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: logi_cal869
I predict they’ll roll over in 24 hours.

I expect their Deep State affiliates and billionaire caste have already cut a deal with Xi. It will be like Hong Kong, with less visible mess.

35 posted on 07/27/2022 6:35:00 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: maddog55

Got that right, but the number is a metaphor:

I believe the CCP has had 50 years to plan for such a scenario and that the Taiwanese don’t have the stomach for destruction.

From all that I’ve read and those I’ve spoken to, I believe that they’ll go quietly - mostly - just like HK. Shameful, really, but that’s the primary reason I don’t support war with CCP over Taiwan.


36 posted on 07/27/2022 6:46:24 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: NWFree

...and not even harm the cat.


37 posted on 07/27/2022 6:52:54 AM PDT by CodeToad (“If you are receiving this transmission, you are the resistance.”)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

EXACTLY.


38 posted on 07/27/2022 7:08:31 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Chickensoup
Is that too much info?

I'm sure China knows all about this place and has a plan to defeat it. Like a cruise missile targeted on each entrance. Wouldn't even need bunker busters. Just trap all those nice planes underground.

39 posted on 07/27/2022 7:59:11 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐Public hangings will wake 'em up.⭐⭐)
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