How Many F-47 Fighters and B-21 Raider Bombers Does the U.S. Need?

China is not Russia, they are the manufacturing king on the planet.

Unfortunately, we have no military advantage against an allied Russia and China.

China is the cheap crap manufacturing king, but that's about it. And huge chunks of SE Asia are muscling in on that action. China has the advantage of already being set up, but other countries are taking the cheapest labor positions.

We have plenty of military advantage, even if they actually fought together. Russia can barely get 100 miles out of her borders, against a country with no navy and a tiny, obsolete air force. And they're still taking heavier losses. Russia would be fighting a 100% defensive war against these US.

China's not much better off. We'll ignore India getting fiesty while China fights these US, but they'll be almost entirely defensive as well. At best they'll have saboteurs and a couple sneaky connex strikes, but that's it. They may have more floating carriers than Russia, but no bluewater, nighttime, or combat tempo operations experience. Two of them are ski-jumpers (Soviet and Soviet-copy ships), and the third is at least catapult, but still non-nuclear. Still in sea trials. None of them are much of any threat to us.

Neither country has any logistical capability to support offshore operations, much less in contested waters, much less 1000s of miles across the Pacific. Russia has minimal submarine threat, and that's it. But every CPT Ivan knows the second he floods his tubes, he's as good as sunk. China is questionable on successfully taking Taiwan, much less Guam, much less Midway, HI, CA...

How is us fighting far away a fool's errand? We haven't militarily lost a war - our only defeats have been political/popular losses, not military. Vietnam, Afghanistan, we just left. And it's much better to fight in the other guy's yard, not yours! Defensive fights are not how you win wars nor destroy the enemy's desire to end the fight.

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