- cross-posted to:
- china@sopuli.xyz
This aerial activity, which now occurs on a near-daily basis, is reported by the Taiwan Defense Ministry. The Taiwan ADIZ Violations Database, compiled by independent defense analyst Benjamin Lewis, illustrates a marked escalation in Chinese military operations near Taiwan in recent years.
It’s weird, I’m seeing very different numbers between Wikipedia pages.
This one says the PLAAF has 565 J-10s for example. This one on the other hand says it has 1000 of them.
They even quote the same book and everything. How do I tell the Wikipedia people about this? I don’t know if I should make an edit either way.
I went through the trouble of tracking the publication down:
https://i.imgur.com/xvTBSm3.png
In more readable form:
According to the source used by both lists, the numbers in the second list are complete nonsense. It’s not just limited to this plane and its variants though. J-11 numbers are also wrong, even though they also cite this source. I corrected these two and might go over the rest of the list later.
You are awesome.