Pretty plane. Does not look stealthy.
China’s Kamikaze Pilots have a new toy
Now they will be able to attack any force that does not have competent air defense, or stealth fighters.
“Powered by a Chinese WS-10 Taihang turbofan engine, the fighter jet has been compared to the US F-15A/C Eagle. “
Unless something has radically changed in the last 2 years, that engine has never run for more than 200 hours, best case.
And is severely under-powered.
Primary weapon system for control of the South China Sea.
Long range, antiship missiles, it can also dominate Philippines and Vietnam, neither of which have effective defenses against it.
Performance by Chinese jets vs ours seems to matter but so does how many they can afford to produce vs our costs per jet.
We can’t be everywhere.
How many Pawns need to be sacrificed to take out a Knight
At this rate, cut the amount of fighter planes in half, and make 5000 mini jet fighter “suicide drones” meant to intercept and fly into enemy craft/boats, etc.