Taiwan still hopes to buy F-35B

Taiwan’s Minster of National Defense Yen Teh-fa told lawmakers on Mar. 15 that the island still hopes to buy the F-35B to defend itself from mainland China.

F-35B Lightning of VMFAT-501 hovers over Eglin AFB 2013
By U.S. Air Force photo by Samuel King [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Yen told the Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee that the government has yet to approach Washington for the purchase and he is not sure how many aircraft are needed.