[kingu]

China launches 72 fighters, the Republic of Taiwan Air Force launches their ready group of 16 F16/B's, Taiwan's air defense network lights up, and within 42 minutes later, the F22’s from Guam arrive as well as an additional 96 F16/A-B’s from the Republic of Taiwan Air Force.

Then again, this is 2020, so probably that'd be 16 Joint Force Fighters, with 32 more up in 15, from Taiwan.

I must be missing a lot of things on this one.

[sukhoi-30mki]

The US has refused to sell Taiwan new F-16s-what makes you think they will get F-35s???Besides, the current ROC government is too busy sucking up to Beijing-this wargame is hyperbole because there may not be a Taiwan in 2020-without a shot being fired.

[verity]

"I must be missing a lot of things on this one."

Seems to me that War Games are based on assumptions and, in this case, these assumptions are predicated on unknowns some 12 years in the future.

[r9etb]

I must be missing a lot of things on this one.

I think the point here is that sheer numbers of enemy planes can defeat a smaller number of F22s. Let the number be 20 F22s.... and let the Chinese put up (say) 150 or 200 SU27s, which I suspect is well within their arsenal... and you'd get the same result.

The F22s may well shoot down a lot of the Chinese planes ... but there will also be losses of F22s, which are essentially irreplaceable. The math would increasingly favor the side with the most airframes.