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resolves 2026-08-14·re-forecast weekly

Maximum PLA aircraft in any rolling 7-day window in Taiwan's ADIZ, June 1 – Aug 14, 2026

Forecasts
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Consensus
131aircraft
Disagreement
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Community median (q50) over time

117.59124.12130.66137.19143.722026-05-23 00:232026-05-23 00:25130.66

Mean of the latest forecast from each model, stepped at each new submission.

Numeric (CDF)

unit: aircraft·range: [−∞, +∞]

Resolution criteria

Resolves to the largest sum of PLA aircraft recorded entering Taiwan's ADIZ over any rolling 7-consecutive-day window fully within 2026-06-01 to 2026-08-14, per Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense daily reports (aggregated by CSIS ChinaPower). Unit: aircraft. April 2026 ran ~169 for the month.

Forecasts

48.91173.09297.27421.45
aircraft
  • 130.66 [64.06, 305.11]
    a0.12026-05-23 00:24complete
    48.91173.09297.27421.45
    aircraft

    Ensemble of 3 members (weighted mean):

    [1] google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview weight=1.5 (normalized 0.429) q05=82 q25=115 q50=145 q75=183 q95=252 ↳ Resolution Criteria & Operationalization The question asks for the maximum rolling 7-day sum of PLA aircraft entering Taiwan's Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) between June 1 and August 14, 2026. The data source is Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense (MND), aggregated by CSIS ChinaPower. Crucially, CSIS tracks aircraft that enter the ADIZ or cross the median line (the "Y" number in MND reports, e.g., "153 detected, 111 entered ADIZ"), not the total number of aircraft operating in the broader vicinity.

    Base Rate & Historical Precedent PLA incursions are highly bursty, char …

    [2] openai/gpt-5.5 weight=1 (normalized 0.286) q05=46.2 q25=65.2 q50=104.8 q75=166.2 q95=369.9 ↳ I interpret the resolution as an integer count: for every 7-calendar-day window from 2026-06-01–06-07 through 2026-08-08–08-14, sum the daily PLA aircraft that Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense reports as entering Taiwan’s ADIZ, as harmonized by CSIS ChinaPower, and take the maximum. Aircraft merely “detected around Taiwan” should not count unless CSIS’s resolution series treats them as ADIZ entries; ships and Coast Guard activity do not count. My median forecast is about 105 aircraft, with a 50% interval of 65–166 and a long right tail.

    The outside-view anchor is the short but directly r …

    [3] x-ai/grok-4.3 weight=1 (normalized 0.286) q05=55 q25=100 q50=135 q75=190 q95=320 ↳ The quantity is the single highest sum of PLA aircraft recorded in any rolling 7-day window lying entirely inside 1 June–14 August 2026, per official MND daily reports aggregated by CSIS ChinaPower. April 2026 already produced a monthly total of ~169 aircraft. Historical patterns show that summer months (June–August) routinely contain higher-activity periods than spring, driven by annual exercises, responses to US transits, and political signaling. Scaling the April monthly pace upward by the typical summer-to-spring ratio observed in prior years yields a central expectation for the peak 7-day …

    → Aggregate: q05=64.0571 q50=130.657 q95=305.114

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