Best Posts in Thread: Philippines acquires 2 FA-50 fighters from South Korea

I'd be willing to take that bet. These are trainer jets are meant to fill a gap between their basic jet trainers and fighters jets (which they don't have or even have any plans on getting yet). Chinese fighter pilots would have already been through that stage of training. The Philippine pilots have very little, if any, training on the technology in those air-crafts. They are going to need the Koreans or Americans to come in and show them how to just switch the thing on (hopefully they have already started the basic training programs for their pilots). These modified trainer jets would even serve as a speed bump for an F16 or equivalent fighter.


Even if they were already properly trained on the A-50 the F16 (and I'd assume China's modern fighters) have a 116% further detection range. Missiles would already be in the air and on the way before the the A-50 even knew another aircraft was there.

China has spent the last 20 years modernizing their air force.......the Philippine just started their modernization last week.