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China Will Field a Sixth Generation Fighter Before America Can - Expert Highlights Why
(militarywatchmagazine.com)
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2025
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I like your metaphor, horse and buggies lol Again I still disagree with you. If we extend the metaphor, let's say 6th gen is a model T car from the 1900s.
The US has Next Generation Air Defense (NGAD) motorcar in development to replace the "horse and buggy" F-22 as a dedicated air supremacy buggy. We also have the B-21 Raider (more like a whole ass truck in this metaphor) rolling out now which is a bomber that's more advanced than either the F-35 "buggy" or the flying triangle "motorcar" that china has a prototype of and which nobody knows anything about performance-wise other than that it's triangular and can fly.
Also the one model of horse and buggy china has is still inferior to the far older F-22 that the US has had since the 1990s.
Something tells me that China isn't going to outpace the US in either production numbers or technical capabilities of aircraft.