J-20 5th Generation Fighter VII

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banjex

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^that's because of the Soviet threat. You can't directly project American force planning against the USSR onto contemporary China.
 

banjex

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Because the current number of F-22s is relevant to China's contemporary force planning (no matter how the current number was arrived at historically). It's relevant because the US is unlikely to restart Raptor production. So it's a good benchmark for China to aim at.
 

The Great Game

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The benchmark China needs to check against is F-35 force deployment in the Asia Pacific.
I agree with this perspective.

Chinese military decision-makers must evaluate CHINESE geo-strategic adversaries’ military actualities and potentialities comprehensively in determining its forces weapons systems procurement and structures. Simple comparisons to this adversary’s or that adversary’s weapons systems, either functionally, numerically, or how these are organized, do not contribute to the formation of comprehensive procurement strategy.

Additionally, taking these geo-strategic adversaries’ military actualities and potentialities into consideration, Chinese military decision-makers must, I think, eventually, consider seeking to achieve both numerical and technological primacy (in their 3rd and 4th generation fighters) in the “Indo-Pacific” air domain, as opposed to near-parity. It won’t be cheap, but it will be necessary. The campaign to surround China with adversarial forces is only JUST beginning to take shape.
 
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