What with its aging fleet becoming difficult to repair, no way of buying new aircraft, and the locally developed IDF fighter not yet in volume production, Taiwan's air supremacy is not looking quite what it was.
現有機種老舊、維修日益困難，新機種採購無門，我國自行研發、用以取代 F-104、F-5E 主力機的 IDF 經國號戰機，又尚未量產，多少降低台灣現今的空防優勢。