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China Will Field a Sixth Generation Fighter Before America Can - Expert Highlights Why (militarywatchmagazine.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Do you think Westerners will finally understand that they are not racially or culturally superior just because for a brief period of human history they were the dominant technological and economical power?

What am I saying? I am being delusional. They will just double down on Sinophobia and Yellow Perilism. And more Chinese people working in the West will leave back to their country.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The US has 2 5th gens in service in large numbers. F-22 and F-35. China has... One 5th gen in small numbers?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Someone just missed how China was so far behind on ICE vehicles but leaped everyone on EVs

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That's right the US dominates the horse and buggy industry.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Aren't manned fighter jets going to be phased out for drones eventually?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

The intermediate step is a human stealth aircraft commanding multiple drone weapons platforms.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

I can't imagine that'll happen in the immediate future, also these types of jets can work with drones as coordination platforms.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Actually I take it back I don't like your metaphor. It would be accurate if the industrial and technical requirements between 5th and 6th gen aircraft were as different as that of a horse and buggy, but fundamentally that's not the case.

Both call for stealth technology, advanced integrated avionics, high performance gas turbines, composite material and titanium structures to meet strength/weight requirements, and advanced radar/sensors, all combined in a package that is both reliable and can be manufactured em mass.

The US has been demonstrating those capabilities for 30 years. China has obtained some of them (still lags in engine, avionics capabilities, and radar) and has only been able to manufacture aircraft with them at a fraction of the scale.

The Chinese aircraft industry is suddenly going to leapfrog the US on all of those features AND manufacture them on a great scale? I doubt that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The only thing the US has been demonstrating for the past 30 years is that the jets they make are overpriced junk that's never actually been tested in combat against a peer competitor. The F35 in particular is an unmitigated disaster that's now cost US tax payers over a trillion dollars. What China is demonstrating is that they can build more advanced technology at a fraction of a cost, and do it before the US can. Also, imagine thinking that China would not be able to manufacture something at scale. 😂

You keep on coping though, it's adorable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

that’s never actually been tested in combat against a peer competitor

Excuse me, F-22 shot down Chinese balloon!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 23 hours ago

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.