After decades in service, Taiwan’s Vietnam-era F-5 fighter jets are being retired as part of the island democracy’s transition to more advanced hardware

Author: The Associated Press, ABC News
Published on: 04/07/2025 | 07:30:49

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Taiwan’s Vietnam-era F-5 fighter jets are being retired as part of the island democracy’s transition to more advanced hardware. To keep pace with increased threats from mainland China, Taiwan has upgraded both its manned and unmanned aerial assets. China claims the island as its own territory and has never dropped its threat to invade since the sides split amid civil war in 1949.

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