Originally Posted by
T28B
The more difficult part for Taiwan is probably the spare parts and other logistics to keep them flying year after year.
The beauty of such an aircraft is simple, like a submarine, Team X has to consider their effect whether they exist or not. A distributed force of F-35B and AV-8Bs around the rock makes for a major complication to the other side of the net. Whether the aircraft are fit for purpose or their statistics on that have to be assumed, so just having them in hiding but announced is a pause to the other player. Now Russia went a bit far with their "mighty military machine!", there are limits to how much you can remove from the program and not ending up looking silly.