TheRejectionist
TheRejectionist
I wasn't talking about the planes. Whatever marvel gadget, mcguffin or wonder weapons, if the enemy knows your moves, you might as well be the fish in the barrel getting shot at.The only thing that can compete with the F-35 right now, is the F-22. They have the highest combat capability of any fighter flying.
The Chinese J-20 is, at least in theory, also a generation 5 fighter, but it's been plagued with issues, and given they've no actual combat experience, it's not at all clear how well it can perform.
The track record of combat aircraft from communist nations suggests that at best they'll be about a third as good as the F-22 or F-35, and possibly a great deal worse. If it does come to a war, pilots will probably instructed to treat them as a near-peer threat in first engagements, and then the actual combat will let the world see how much the Communists have been lying, this time.
Also there are reasonable doubts to how "good" is an F35 :
The F-35 is an overpriced lemon that doesn’t work
Your friend and humble narrator is getting pretty sick and tired of continuing problems with the F-35, the super-expensive wonder jet that might be ready for a war against China or Russia by the turn of the millennium.
taskandpurpose.com
Five F-35 issues have been downgraded, but they remain unsolved
Five of the 13 major technical issues first revealed by Defense News have been downgraded in the last year.
www.defensenews.com
The number of major F-35 flaws is shrinking, but the Pentagon is keeping details of the problems under wraps
The F-35 program currently has 857 deficiencies, but only seven are considered "critical."
www.defensenews.com