Taiwan Air Force fighter fell into the sea north of the island

In Taiwan, during a training flight, a French-made fighter Dassault Mirage 2000 crashed, the local Taipei Times reported, citing the command of the Air Force. To date, no information has been received from official sources on the fate of the pilot.

According to the Air Force Command, communications with the aircraft were lost 74 kilometers north of the port city of Jilong. A search operation is ongoing there with the participation of patrol boats and aircraft.

Taiwan’s 60 fighters are now in service with Dassault Mirage 2000 fighters, bought from France 19 years ago. These vehicles form the basis of the island’s air force, along with US-made F-16 and IDF fighters.

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[210ox]

These “Mirages” are a hundred years old at lunch .. In general, this is aviation and here everything happens ..

[Grandfather]

Quote: 210ox

These “Mirages” are a hundred years old at lunch .. In general, this is aviation and here everything happens ..

19 years old? we and "abruptly" are available.

[210ox]

19 years old not bought but bought. They stood with the French back in the early 80's ..

Quote: Dead Day

Quote: 210ox

These “Mirages” are a hundred years old at lunch .. In general, this is aviation and here everything happens ..

19 years old? we and "abruptly" are available.

[Separ DNR]

Quote: 210ox

19 years old not bought but bought. They stood with the French back in the early 80's ..

And there’s nothing wrong with that. Even older, and in some sense already archaic MiG 21s, as a result of modernization, are still showing Wow-Go
It is an acceptable option for not very rich countries.

[Jedi]

I do not mind the plane, although it cost money when I bought it. But the pilot, I hope, is intact ...

[NIKNN]

Judging by the article they only hope. First of all, they would have raised a pilot (they would have found a lighthouse), but here everyone is looking for ..., at sea ...

[Jedi]

It seems like that. Usually if the pilot is alive, this is immediately reported.

[NIKNN]

Here the fact is that he did not catapult, otherwise the lighthouse would turn on automatically and the boat would inflate, and even if the sharks were eaten, anyway the boat would be immediately found ...

[Jedi]

If you didn’t catapult, then there is practically no chance of surviving a plane’s impact on water, as I understand it.

[NIKNN]

Absolutely, the probability of a successful landing of a fighter with a technical failure is very low, due to the pilot’s lack of skills to visually determine the distance to the water surface and the increased vertical decrease speed (for example, if the engine fails) will not give a chance ... The increased vertical speed is due to the low aerodynamic quality of fighters (usually around 10), for this reason it is easier to put a transport or passenger aircraft on water, with which this parameter is generally 2-2.5 times higher ...

[Jedi]

Quote: NIKNN

Increased vertical speed due to the low aerodynamic quality of fighters (usually around 10)

Your words reminded me of a phrase I heard a long time ago in some popular science broadcast that modern fighter jets have the aerodynamics of a telegraph pole when a power plant fails.

[NIKNN]

Quote: Jedi

in case of failure of the power plant, they have aerodynamics of the telegraph pole.

Not all, but not very far and gone. 3rd generation fighters were closer to this expression, these Su-9,11 were especially famous for their masterpieces. Now, thanks to new schemes, the problem looks better. But still, a fighter to perform its functions is simply obliged to have a high load on the wing and its small elongation, and as a result, this contradicts the presence of high aerodynamic quality. Alas, no compromise has been found yet ...

[shans2]

if you think about it, and after all, the West has nothing to change planes for - they have nothing, they are Holodrans) - with the F-22, F-35 the road to nowhere ....

[Grandfather]

Quote: shans2

with F-22, F-35 way to nowhere ....

and they say: "into the future" ... only you need to accelerate to 80 miles per hour ... h / f "back to the future" (C).

[Großer feldherr]

And who has something to change?

[IL-18]

Quote: Großer Feldherr

And who has something to change?

To China.

[Großer feldherr]

China does not change, but in fact is building a new army.