Re: Jets & Planes but no UAV's here.
I brought this up in Post #502 above, now JANE's is reporting that Taiwan could be the second customer behind Bahrain to fly the most advanced F-16 version in the world, the F-16 BLOCK 70. These will be new airframes designed to fly until 2070. They will have onboard many of the electronic components used on the F-22.
First from JANE's....
https://www.janes.com/article/90631/...caf-operations
For perspective...
https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/f-16.html
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/th...has-f-22-26419
More about the jet and Bahraini deal and mostly for the 5 articles at the very bottom. Also Don I haven't forgotten about you there's a couple of great shots of Bahrain's F-16 jets in the air in their camo! We like doing pictures!! 
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...existing-fleet
China has indicated these particular fighters would be a " red line" for them. Maybe theirs aren't so good after all.  
Regards,
Pat
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