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A report from United Daily News says Taiwan is studying how to salvage functioning General Electric J85 small single-shaft turbojet engines from its F-5 fleet and reuse them on missiles.
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A report by RAND last month concluded that “resource constraints and limited inventories of fighter aircraft pose formidable obstacles to the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force’s ability to match Chinese air activity” in the East China Sea.
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Poland has dispatched four F-16s to Šiauliai, Lithuania whereby the country will take command of the NATO Air Policing Mission in the Baltic states from Jan. 3.
Credit: Lithuanian Ministry of National Defense
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