The 56 French Mirage 2000-5 are expensive, and manpower intensive, to maintain. 对维护来讲，56架法国幻影-2000-5型是耗费大量人力和昂贵的。 

March 12, 2010: The Taiwanese government has admitted that their older fighters (F-5s, IDFs and Mirage 2000s) are not likely to do well against the newer Chinese Su-30s and Su-27s. Taiwan ran combat simulations and found that they would lose 2.8 Mirage 2000s and 1.7 IDFs for every Su-30 shot down. The F-16 is considered a match for the Su-30, and Taiwan is trying to get more of them. China is trying to persuade the United States not to provide them.

2010年3月12日[原文标题：台湾正在发生转折]：台湾地区政府已经承认它们较陈旧的战斗机（F-5、IDF和幻影-2000）不可能很好地去对抗比较新的中国大陆Su-30和Su-27战斗机。台湾空军进行战斗模拟并且发现每击落一架Su-30他们会失去2.8架幻影-2000和1.7架IDF。对F-16的观点是和Su-30相匹敌，而且台湾地区正在设法更多的获得，与此相反，中国大陆设法让美国不要提供它们。

The 60 elderly F-5s are no competition at all for the Su-30s, and were only considered useful against Chinese bombers or their MiG-21 clone (the F-7). The locally made IDF is, and this is no secret, a second rate F-16 replacement. The 56 French Mirage 2000-5 are expensive, and manpower intensive, to maintain.

60年代的F-5型根本无法和Su-30匹敌，而且仅仅认为用于对抗中国轰炸机或它们的歼-7（米格-21仿制型）。台湾地区自产的IDF，这不是什么秘密，一种二等的F-16替代型号。对维护来讲，56架法国幻影-2000-5型是耗费大量人力和昂贵的。

The Taiwan Air Force is considering retiring the older, more difficult to maintain, aircraft, and put more resources into the more recent models. Taiwan wants to upgrade its 146 F-16A Block 20 fighters, which are some of the oldest F-16s still in service. Taiwan has on order 66 F-15C block 50/52 fighters, a sale which has been blocked by local politics, and Chinese protests, for years.

台湾空军正在考虑退役陈旧、更困难维护的飞机，而且把较多的资源置于更多的新型号上。台湾地区应该升级它的146架F-16A型批次20战斗机，是一些最陈旧F-16型号并仍然在服役中。台湾地区打算订购66架F-15C型批次50/52战斗机，但被当地政治阻止和中国大陆抗议，已长达数年之久。