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As someone who lives in a place where war could break out with China at any time, I'm very curious at if the US can have advantage while against china at first chain island. I had searched a lot but still don’t know a specific conclusion . especially the china have a very good industry and can produce lot of advanced fighter jet in a short time. And What I really want know is the data like the AWACS numbers and ability compared. As what I read the china have some good radar that says can detect stealth jet very easily and the 5th gen jet like j20 saw some documents says china have 500+at 2025 .and pl15 as missile that can have a very long no escape zone due to it’s e dual-pulsed solid propellant rocket motor and pl17 that is smaller compared to aim174b so it can be fit into some stealth jet and still have remain stealth But I don’t know the number and if they can compete. And the radar on the 5th gen jet .j 20 have a bigger and better radar a better engine WS15 and a larger number of T/R module almost 2000+ compared to f35 only 1676 so I don’t know who will have the advantage while having long range fight .Also a very important part is how many numbers of combat aircraft can US use at first island chain. And if the battlefield is at the first island chain how many advantage and threat can the china Road-based radar and missiles bring to the US. And I know china don’t have lot of air combat experience and training. But china have some weapons that can bring a lot of threat to US, Like DF-21 these ASBM have a very high speed and is very hard to defend. Also they have a great number of those missile so carrier battle group need to have ability to stop a very big number of missile that is very very hard to defend.

I’m sorry if this question is asked a lot, but with recent events (like the chinese “6th gen”) wouldn’t it make sense that some more leaks would be happening soon? With the new administration, which many can agree holds a big ego, I feel like it would also make sense that the US would want to “show off” what they supposedly have been confirmed to be testing. We also had supposed confirmation that the drones over Jersey were cleared by the FAA for research, hinting at these planes potentially being NGAD flights.

I’m really excited to hear or even just see something but since it’s so classified it’s hard to find any up to date sources.

What do you think is the most overrated Fighter jet? Mirage Series for me

I know the military loves the F-35 and from what I’ve read it seems like a really good fighter, especially given its multi-role capabilities, but the thing I keep coming back to when looking it up is that it breaks down - all the time. I know it’s one of the most advanced fighters out there right now, which makes it incredibly complex and more expensive to maintain, but software issues aside, how much do mechanical parts fail on it compared to something like the F-16 or F-22? Been trying to find MTBF numbers, but I haven’t been able to reliably.

What do you guys think? IMO the Berkut looks kinda bad, I think I made him too fat

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Based on What we've seen at airshows is the Felon as good of noisepointer and Turner as the good old thrust vectoring Flanker?

Im kinda new to jets and military aviation (airliner guy) so I have a few questions as I’m learning about the history of jets.

1. Why did the Americans never implement Russian hyper maneuverability thrust vectoring that the migs and sukhois had (correct me if I’m wrong).

2. Did the American jets generally defeat these jets in dogfights despite difference in agility, I feel like they would have had a great disadvantage. And if they did win. How did they?

3. What was the biggest deciding factor that led to a jets victory in battle (any jet not just RUS and USA)

Detailed answers would be very helpful. If there’s anything I should watch/ read that will help me understand the history of combat aviation that would be apreciated.