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PiSigma

"the engineer"
Japan is buying 100 F-35 stealth fighter jets from USA. By the time China makes 100 J-20s stealth jets Japan will have a 100 F-35s jets.

Make fighter jets or buy fighter jets ?
Buy of course! If the country have no capacity to build and wants to stay a vassle state forever, just keep buying it.

No one knows how many j20s China got so far.. and no one will know when they have 100 if japan will have 100 f35
 

Magas

Just Hatched
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Buy of course! If the country have no capacity to build and wants to stay a vassle state forever, just keep buying it. No one knows how many j20s China got so far.. and no one will know when they have 100 if japan will have 100 f35

It took some 10 years of manufacturing, testing and selling and now F-35 stealth jets are flying all over the world.

China's J-20 will need 7 to 8 years more for 100s of jets to be flying in the skies. In 3 years, Japan military will master 100 F-35s
 

PiSigma

"the engineer"
It took some 10 years of manufacturing, testing and selling and now F-35 stealth jets are flying all over the world.

China's J-20 will need 7 to 8 years more for 100s of jets to be flying in the skies. In 3 years, Japan military will master 100 F-35s
It took a lot longer for the f35 to get to where it is today than 10 years.

Don't move the goal post, you said 100 j20, not 100s. Japan's f35 is pretty useless vs China, they need fly over Korea first.
 

ougoah

Brigadier
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China will not be looking to match the combined 5th gen fleet around its eastern shores courtesy of Japan and the US. It won't because it's unrealistic to do this in the current economic condition where there are plenty of other areas in need of funding. If a war really starts, just use longer range weapons to knock out those bases. Kill supporting air assets like tankers and AWACS. Then even the latest and greatest will run out of ammo and fuel and have nowhere to land unless a nearby nation allows them to use their airfields, potentially making them into targets too.

Chasing equal numbers is a fool's errand. Chasing technological superiority is worthwhile though but that involves not putting all your available resources into procurement alone.
 
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