The IDF assembly workshop in Taiwan was shut down by the US government in year 2000, and all the military-grade high-precision tool kits there were destroyed. While Taiwan still possesses the original IDF manufacturing manual, as of 2024, the Taiwanese government has been unable to reproduce new units of the aging IDF fighter jet. This remains a fact. Since Taiwan does not have the core and essential combat technology to re-produce it, all them well controlled by US gov although IDF is aged combat technology back to year 1980s.