{"id":137,"date":"2007-04-21T01:25:30","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T17:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=137"},"modified":"2007-04-21T01:42:59","modified_gmt":"2007-04-20T17:42:59","slug":"for-your-eyes-onlynot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"For Your Eyes Only&#8230;&#8230;Not!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/slide1.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The above image is the cover of a Ministry of National Defense Powerpoint presentation about the phase-out plan for major weapon systems currently used by the Taiwan military. The presentation was used in a press conference and then posted on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnd.gov.tw\/Publish.aspx?cnid=65&#038;p=8263\">MND website <\/a>on April 10. But when a legislator asked the MND for information on the phase-out plan, what he obtained was essentially the same document, marked <strong>Classified until April 13, 2017<\/strong>. An MND spokesperson later explained that this was due to miscommunications between MND&#8217;s departments and no classifiled materials had been leaked.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I am not sure how long the MND is going to keep the presentation available on its website. Anyway, I downloaded the three .ppt files the next day they were posted, before the legislator got his &#8220;Classified&#8221; document, and here they are:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/slide1.ppt\">Part 1<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/slide2.ppt\">Part 2<\/a> (More than 3Mbytes!)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/slide3.ppt\">Part 3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that the MND planned to phase out the C-130H from 2009 to 2016 and replace them with &#8220;mid-size transport aircraft&#8221;. ROCAF&#8217;s oldest C-130 entered service in 1986; so they will be at most 30 years old when they are retired. But the newest ones will not even reach 20 years in 2016. Many 40-year-plus-old C-130 in the USAF are still flying now. I don&#8217;t understand the ratioinale behind the proposed phase-out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The above image is the cover of a Ministry of National Defense Powerpoint presentation about the phase-out plan for major weapon systems currently used by the Taiwan military. The presentation was used&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}