Koku Fan 2023/11

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This is a Japanese-language book or magazine about aircraft and/or aircraft modeling. Some Japanese aircraft books, such as the Aero Detail series contain complete English text as well. See the product description below for details.

Aviation Fan November 2023

Volume 851

Special Feature The Environment Surrounding Taiwan

China, which has been strengthening its influence over the countries of the world, especially those in the Global South, as it gains economic power, has been expanding its maritime activities to secure resources and show off its national strength, extending its sphere of activities through the East China Sea and the South China Sea to the Pacific Ocean.

In this context, tensions over Taiwan, which is located just west of Japan, continue to mount, and despite the Chinese government’s view that it is a domestic issue, it has become an unsettling factor that would surely affect Japan in the event of an emergency.

This month’s issue introduces in color the air show held at the Taiwan Air Force’s CCK Air Base on the occasion of the 814th Air Force Day, the summer Air Force Day, and provides photo reports on the IDF Ching-kuo, the F-16V, and other latest air force equipment.

In addition, we will also look at the current status of the Taiwanese military (ROC military) and its air power, as well as the significance of the recent series of exercises that European and other non-US countries have been conducting with the SDF.

This month’s featured articles

Australian F-35 deployed in Komatsu, Japan-Australia joint training exercise “Bushido Guardian 23

ANA’s “EVJet NH” to enter service

MacArthur’s Bataan revived

AIR RACE X SHIBUYA Digital Round Final Tournament to be held on October 15

Aircraft on display at the Republic of China Air Force Military Academy

Yoshihide Muroya Air Show in Hitachinaka & Oarai

Summer Blue Impulse display flights (World Swimming Championships, Three Great Views of Japan Day, Ishinomaki Kawabiraki Festival)

Featured Graphics

Matsushima Air Base Air Festival, home base of the Blue Impulse

F-35A “The Green Mountain Boys” of the Vermont ANG, U.S.A.

USS Gerald R. Ford in action in the Mediterranean

Airborne alert over Romania and Italian TFA Gladiators

Jim Larsen’s Viewfinder – Abbotsford

(From the Bunrindo website)