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Maikeru

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Secretary of Air Force addresses Senate defense appropriations committee:

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Kendall said that after being made aware on Tuesday of "concerning" new classified data, the US Air Force could win any conflict if called upon today, but added that China had been rapidly narrowing the capability gap.

"The threat keeps changing. It keeps getting worse," he said. "I think we're at a situation where in the near term, the immediate term, we are at an acceptable level of risk. [But] the risk is increasing over time, and if we focus on the risk today at the expense of ... higher levels of risk that we're going to see [as China] continues to modernise, we're going to have to be in a very intractable position within just a few years.

"China is actively developing and expanding capabilities to challenge strategic stability, attack our critical space systems, and defeat our ability to project power - especially air power," he said.

Would love to know what the "concerning" classified data was!
 
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gelgoog

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The PLAAF in some cases already surpassed the USAF in terms of capabilities.

PLAAF air to air missiles have longer reach than US ones. China has more heavy 5th generation fighters (J-20 vs F-22). China has more modern and more plentiful ground attack fighter bombers (J-16 vs F-15E). China has more modern satnav than the US (Beidou vs GPS).

Even modernized US airframes like F-15EX lack features present in modern Chinese Flanker airframes like the J-16.
The F-15EX has no modern MAWS and RWR.

China at this point probably surpassed or equaled US technology in terms of sensors, airframe construction.

China's main gaps are: no 5th generation strategic bomber, no lightweight fighter, engine technology. China is still at least one generation behind in engine technology.
 
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Zichan

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The USAF remains a leader in 5th gen aircraft, radars and in particular EW systems. Given recent efforts to deny China the means to manufacture leading edge semiconductors this gap will widen in the near term. Digital software defined radars, ESM and cognitive electronic warfare systems are critically dependent on leading edge logic and memory semiconductor manufacturing.
 
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gelgoog

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gpt said:
Typhon ground based missile system (Tomahawk, SM-6) deployed to the Pihillipines
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This just shows how the US lied about Russia breaking the INF Treaty limitations. The US themselves wanted to break the treaty, so they accused the Russians of doing it as a cover to put this infringing system into place. And the gullible Europeans are just too dumb to realize it. They just put themselves into the crosshairs of future Russian retaliation. As well Japan, South Korea and the Philippines in Asia will put themselves into the crosshairs of China in case these systems are to be deployed there.

Putting these systems into service basically lowers the nuclear threshold.
 
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SlothmanAllen

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gelgoog said:
The PLAAF in some cases already surpassed the USAF in terms of capabilities.

PLAAF air to air missiles have longer reach than US ones. China has more heavy 5th generation fighters (J-20 vs F-22). China has more modern and more plentiful ground attack fighter bombers (J-16 vs F-15E). China has more modern satnav than the US (Beidou vs GPS).

Even modernized US airframes like F-15EX lack features present in modern Chinese Flanker airframes like the J-16.
The F-15EX has no modern MAWS and RWR.

China at this point probably surpassed or equaled US technology in terms of sensors, airframe construction.

China's main gaps are: no 5th generation strategic bomber, no lightweight fighter, engine technology. China is still at least one generation behind in engine technology.
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I think it will be really interesting to see what each country comes up with for their next generation of fighter aircraft. Certainly each aircraft will be shaped by the unique needs of each nation, but it will still make for some interesting comparisons!
 
siegecrossbow

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Maikeru said:
Secretary of Air Force addresses Senate defense appropriations committee:

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Some key quotes:

Kendall said that after being made aware on Tuesday of "concerning" new classified data, the US Air Force could win any conflict if called upon today, but added that China had been rapidly narrowing the capability gap.

"The threat keeps changing. It keeps getting worse," he said. "I think we're at a situation where in the near term, the immediate term, we are at an acceptable level of risk. [But] the risk is increasing over time, and if we focus on the risk today at the expense of ... higher levels of risk that we're going to see [as China] continues to modernise, we're going to have to be in a very intractable position within just a few years.

"China is actively developing and expanding capabilities to challenge strategic stability, attack our critical space systems, and defeat our ability to project power - especially air power," he said.

Would love to know what the "concerning" classified data was!
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Some intern found Deino’s Twitter and added findings in a report.
 
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ACuriousPLAFan

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gelgoog said:
China's main gaps are: no 5th generation strategic bomber, no lightweight fighter, engine technology. China is still at least one generation behind in engine technology.
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Both China and the US do not operate lightweight fighters. The lightest (mainline) fighters in service in both countries are the J-10s and F-16s, respectively.
 
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SlothmanAllen

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ACuriousPLAFan said:
Both China and the US do not operate lightweight fighters. The lightest (mainline) fighters in service in both countries are the J-10s and F-16s, respectively.
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Are the F-35, F-16 and J-10 not lightweight fighters? They are all single engine, and I guess you could argue "lightweight" is a sliding scale with single engine aircraft getting more heavy as time goes on.
 
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