I wonder how CHINAA would be be behaving right now if they knew we had a top-line fleet of 750 Raptors just waiting to be put to use...
Guess we’ll never know....
Might be a good idea to buy a crap load of modern F-15SE+ on the cheap till something new and WORKS comes out 20 years from now.
In the mean time maybe in 15 years the F-16 replacement the F-35 will be fully operational to original specs.
We have something far more worrisome for the Chinese!