J-20 5th Generation Fighter VII
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Not sure if anyone has seen this, but in a recent US House Armed Services Committee session, LtGen Richard G. Moore, USAF, Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Programs, testified that:
"Based on the most most advance weapon that an F-22 block 20 can carry now, it is not competitive with the J-20 with the most advance weapons the Chinese can put on it."
The Block 20 F-22 is older compared to the latest Block 35 standard and can carry AIM-120C instead of D.
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"Based on the most most advance weapon that an F-22 block 20 can carry now, it is not competitive with the J-20 with the most advance weapons the Chinese can put on it."
The Block 20 F-22 is older compared to the latest Block 35 standard and can carry AIM-120C instead of D.
Full video at
Quote at 1:12:37
Americans are lucky that China doesn’t resort to too much Jai Hindism. If the Chinese had 1/100th of the Indian’s ego/Twitter presence we’d be bombarded by at least 300 articles on how F-22 is a junk fighter.
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In a way, it by now basically became one.
For an investment that should've produced ~50 years of air superiority capability, US only managed to get ~15, because F-22 ended up being incredibly un-proof against the future.
And these 15 years just so happened to be years when no one could question US air dominance in any case, with raptors or without.
2006-2023 US just didn't need any air superiority fighter whatsoever...and by the end of 2020s US will pay quite a lot to get their raptors to do that contemporary non-LO fighters do (at least) no worse.
Don't tell F-16.net that or they will blow a gasket.
Wish he could divide up the formation lights and change the training round to a real one but other than that no complaints.
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