【华盛顿邮报110920】美不卖新F-16s给台湾,但卖零件翻新旧F-16

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美不卖新F-16s给台湾,但卖零件翻新旧F-16,又坑小马又坑爹，很损！

Obama administration defends decision not to sell new F-16s to Taiwan
By William Wan and Keith B. Richburg, Tuesday, September 20, 9:07 AM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wo ... QAqiRMgK_story.html

The Obama administration on Monday defended its planned arms package for Taiwan in the face of widespread criticism, saying it had balanced competing pressures in deciding to refurbish the island’s F-16 fighters without selling it any new jets.

Several members of Congress and others had denounced the deal, accusing the administration of caving to Chinese pressure by not allowing Taiwan to buy dozens of new jets to bolster its aging air force.

But an administration official said that by refurbishing existing jets, the United States could maintain its security relationship with Taiwan while not unsettling the island’s precarious dealings with China. The official said the move also allows the administration to continue pursuing “constructive relations with China based on real cooperation on economic and regional security.”

The official, who was not authorized to speak on the record, called the decision “a smart defense policy — it makes a real and immediate contribution to Taiwan’s security.”

At a press briefing in New York, where the U.N. General Assembly was meeting, a second senior administration official said that refurbished F-16s are a cheaper option for what is, “essentially, the same quality.”

The official added, “And we’re obviously prepared to consider further sales in the future.”

Taiwan, however, reacted with disappointment. At a U.S.-Taiwan defense industry conference in Richmond, Andrew N.D. Yang, Taiwan’s vice minister of national defense, told the Reuters news agency, “These years, China is showing stronger and stronger reaction to U.S.-Taiwan arms sales,” which he said has made the United States “more wary with arms sales.”

A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said Monday that Beijing “firmly opposes” the Obama administration’s plans, but the measured tone suggested that China wanted to register displeasure without pursuing a full-scale confrontation with Washington. The U.S. decision comes at a critical moment for Taiwan, which is gearing up for a January presidential election and is facing serious questions about the abilities of its air force.

Taiwan and its supporters have argued that refurbishing its 145 existing F-16 A/B model jets without selling it 66 new C/D models, as it desires, will cause the island’s air power to diminish. Some of its other older-model jets, such as the F-5, are more than three decades old. And the shortage of planes will be exACerbated as groups of existing F-16s are taken out of commission to go through the offered modification.

“It’s an alarming precedent to make security decisions based on concerns about how China would respond and not on what Taiwan really needs,” said Rupert Hammond-Chambers, president of U.S.-Taiwan Business Council.

Last year, when President Obama announced a deal to sell $6.4 billion in arms to Taiwan, including missiles, Black Hawk helicopters and mine-clearing ships, China broke off military contact with Washington for months. It later called the proposed sale of new F-16s a “red line” that must not be crossed.

Relations have since improved, after Chinese President Hu Jintao’s state visit to Washington in January and Vice President Biden’s follow-up visit to China last month.

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短评：台军F-16“采购变升级”后面的瞒天过海
2011年09月20日 10:00:55 　
http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2011-09/20/c_122058943.htm

    新华网专稿（新华军事评论员 郑文浩）美国国会一名官员16日称，美国已经决定不向台湾出售新一代的F-16战机，而会帮助台湾升级后者已经拥有的F-16战机。有报道称，这个决定肯定会惹怒美国国会里“喜欢对华提出批评的一些议员”，而且会使台湾“受挫”。果然，“不向台湾出售新一代战机”的消息遭到美国国会两党一些议员的“批评”。美国共和党参议员约翰•科尔尼（John Cornyn）看到《华盛顿时报》的上述报道后，谴责美国政府的决定“是在向中国投降”。美国议员的这些行为，丝毫不顾美国向台湾出售武器是严重侵犯了中国的国家利益，反倒是受了“莫大委屈”的样子。那么，美国在决定升级台湾现役F-16A/B战机之后，是一种表面上的让步，还是让台军进一步增强实力的一招“瞒天过海”？

    美国原先向台湾出售的F-16A/B战斗机，据一些资深军事网友考证，是block20批次的F-16战斗机，无论是机体结构和发动机，和美国空军早期装备的F-16C/D没有什么差别，甚至在空战格斗能力上，还有所超越。从航电上来看，一般认为F-16A/B和F-16C/D最大的差别，就在于无法使用美国的AIM-120中距空空导弹，也就是不具备视距外发射空空导弹的能力。但是美国对台军F-16战机的升级一直没有停止。从2001年以后，美国开始向台湾出售AIM-120导弹，同时升级了其火控计算机，台军的F-16A/B也具备了发射AIM-120导弹的能力。因此前面所说的差别，也就消失了。因此实际来看，说现在台军的F-16A/B就是F-16C/D，也不为过。

    因此来看，台军这次试图购买F-16C/D未果，并不意味着其F-16机群就不具备F-16C/D战机的作战能力。例如2007年3月，台湾就斥巨资采购部分美制机载武器以装备其F-16战斗机，其中包括218枚AIM-120C7、235枚"幼畜"AGM-65G2空地导弹。相反，这次美国以技术升级的方式，改进台军现有机群，也肯定不会仅仅达到台军F-16已经达到的F-16C/D的标准。那么我们是不是可以预测一下，这笔高达42亿美元的改装方案，会使台军F-16达到一个什么样的水平。

    首先总的技术升级费用是42亿美元，大约等于1300亿新台币。而原来2006年台军准备购买66架F-16C/D的总的预算额，也大约为1200亿新台币。撇开货币贬值的因素，可以说台军丝毫没有因为无法购买新战机就少花钱。改装费用和原来购买新战机费用，几乎一样。而按照台军现有145架F-16战机来计算，平均分摊到每一架大约为2千9百万美元。这样的资金，想把台军现在所有F-16战斗机提到非常高的水平，在美元不断贬值的情况下，并不太现实。因此，台军极有可能以不同方式来升级其机群。

    例如，台军有可能根据原来的F-16采购计划，对现有机群中的40-60架F-16战机，进行大规模改造，比如安装美国为F-16战斗机提供的AN/APG-80相控阵雷达和F110-GE-132涡扇发动机。其实笔者的这个标准，实际上就是参考了美国当初向阿拉伯联合酋长国出售的80架F-16-BLOCK60战斗机。按照当时的合同，美国向阿联酋出售的单机价格约为8000万美元。如果美国公司不建造新的机体，仅仅把台军现有40-60架左右F-16战机的设备更新到F-16-BLOCK60的标准，台湾现有42亿的改装费用仍然可以承受，甚至还有一些盈余为其他F-16战机购买新部件和武器。

    台军的F-16A/B，已经具备了C/D型号的主要性能。而这次新战机求购未果，转而为技术升级，那么台军方面试图大幅度提升现有F-16战机（哪怕是部分F-16）来维持所谓和大陆的空中平衡，这个决心并没有改变。而单纯从技术角度上来看，美国也具备一批现成的航电、武器和动力装备，来让台军的F-16战机性能获得大幅度提升。而随着新闻热点的转移，美台在这次“升级”计划中隐藏各种手段，来达到向台湾出售更先进武器的图谋是依然存在的。因此尽管具体到台军的F-16机体状况，改装能否大幅度提升其性能尚存在疑问，但是我们决不能因为“采购变升级”，就忽视美国对台军售的巨大危害性，反而要时刻警惕美台军事交易中的瞒天过海行为。

学识1949

说实话，对这则消息没太搞懂；难道奥巴马不想连任啦？

zhiyi

人家早都看透你的肠子了：我卖了，你能怎么样？不就是嚷嚷两天抗议抗议拉倒吗？大不了终止一些合作项目，还不过几天又好了。

天丛云

这种耻辱以后一定要找回场子来