The Royal Thai Air Force has apparently performed at least one airstrike with F-16s on Cambodian military facilities, and Cambodia claims civilian casualties occurred. Thailand says Cambodian artillery hit a hospital.
A quick glance at the comparative military strengths of the two countries makes it look like things would be pretty lopsided if Thailand got serious. Let's just say that in any future wargame simulations of current events, the Thai player won't have to roll for air supremacy on turn one. Not only do the Cambodians not have any fighter jets or attack aircraft, they don't even have any combat helos, except in the sense that any helo can be a combat helo if it believes in itself hard enough. The Royal Thai Army has some reasonably modern armor, while the Cambodian tank park is a bunch of mid-Cold War museum pieces and who knows what kind of shape they may be in?
I was going to say that any Northrop F-5 Tiger II stans should get excited because this might be its last hurrah, but then I remembered that Iran and the ROK still operate them and who knows what’s gonna happen next on this cursed timeline?
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