Naval Air Station Cubi Point in the Philippines to reconnoiter PR ChinaвЂ™s supply route from Hainan Island to the borderlines between Mainland China and North Vietnam. On 7 th July 1964, Lieutenant Colonel Lee Nan-ping (Terry) flew a U-2 from U.S. by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). On 10 th November 1982, he and Major Chang Li-yi (another downed U-2 pilot) were released in Hongkong, and both of them were later arranged to live in the U.S. He was shot down by PLAAF SA-2 missiles in the vicinity of YinвЂ™tan, Jiangxi Province, and was later captured as a prisoner. On 1 st November 1963, Major Yeh Chang-di (Robin) flew a U-2 on a reconnaissance mission for suspected nuclear facilities in Wuhan, Hubei Province. On 9 th September 1962, Lieutenant Colonel Chen Huai (posthumously renamed as Chen Huai-sheng by then President Chiang Kai-shek) flew U-2C #378 from Taoyuan AFB heading to XiвЂ™an for a reconnaissance mission, and he was shot down by SA-2 missiles of the PLA Air Force (PLAAF) over Nanchang, Jiangxi Province. During the period, 220 reconnaissance missions had been conducted to span a coverage of more than 10 million km2 over 30 more provinces in the Chinese mainland.Дuring the period of its operations, the Black Cat Squadron lost 6 U-2s (5 among them were downed by the PeopleвЂ™s Liberation Army) with 4 pilots killed in action and 2 captured. In 1967, the agreement for вЂњProject RazorвЂќ was sign by representatives from both countries with a validity from 13th January 1962 to 24th May 1974. On 1st February 1963, the вЂњWeather Reconnaissance and Research SectionвЂќ was formally set up and put under the jurisdiction of the Office of Deputy Chief of Staff/Intelligence (A2) in the General Headquarters (former body of the Command Headquarters) of the ROCAF, and the section was the de facto вЂњ35th SQвЂќ as it was known in the public. technicians started to move in Taiwan from November 1960, and the mission was ready to go in the next year, 1961. However, the required air assets failed to arrive as expected, so the pilots didnвЂ™t receive the training in the U.S. and the instruction of Chiang Ching-kuo, Deputy Secretary-general of the National Defense Council, the ROC Air Force (ROCAF) selected its elite pilots, who were going to conduct high-altitude reconnaissance missions, to receive training at a strategic AFB in Texas, U.S, starting from April 1959. would like to assign U-2s to fly into the Chinese mainland, Taiwan, the sovereign territory of the ROC, was a much better alternative of basing, and the вЂњProject RazorвЂќ was thus conceived.ДЄsed on the interests of the ROC and the U.S. The Republic of China (ROC) signed a вЂњMutual Defense Treaty between the United States of America and the Republic of China,вЂќ in 1954, and was accordingly identified as sided with the вЂњdemocratic camp.вЂќ Consequently, considering the efficiency and effectiveness of the mission and its possible flight routes if the U.S. decision-making for strategic deployment. All these pieces of intelligence, which could be gleaned by U-2s, were critical to U.S. In the meantime, a missile test-launch facility was built at Ussuriysk in the north of Baotou. Furthermore, it had set up nuclear reactors in Lanzhou and Baotou, located more than 3,000 km away from Taiwan, to produce U-235 for atomic bombs. In addition, Mainland China was technically supported by the former Soviet Union to establish an experimental heavy-water plant in Beijing in order to develop atomic bombs. government at the time wanted to know the status of military assistance provided by Chinese communists to North Korea, and the reconnaissance mission could only be accomplished by long-flying planes taking off from U.S. Eisenhower approved a proposal from the Department of Defense (DoD) to develop a high-altitude reconnaissance plane that could fly above 70,000 ft. Within the next 5 years, it had produced hydrogen bombs and long-range strategic bombers, and greatly improved its military technology. In 1949, the former Soviet Union completed a test explosion of atomic bomb.

Aerospace Technology Research And Development Center of ROCAF.

The 5th Tactical Composite Wing of ROCAF.

Air Force Air Defense and Missile Command.

Air Force Maintenance and Support Command.

Air Force Education, Training and Doctrines Development Command.

Chinese bomber cat