[Tallguy]

“Even 4th generation fighters, when pitted in large numbers against 187 F-22s, will eventually wear [the stealth fighters] down,” an aerospace industry official says. “They only carry eight air-to-air missiles. They don’t have to match Raptor capabilities if they build an advanced fighter in F-35 numbers.”

Yes, but do enemy pilots have the discipline to press home the attack and take their losses? In Iraq, during the Gulf War, Iraqi tank crews began to bailout of their tanks when the first shots from the M1A1's started hitting home. Similarly the Iraqi airforce pretty much stayed on the ground after the first hours of the war, then bolted to Iran. Are PLAF pilots willing to do the equivalent of marching across a minefield in hopes that somebody makes it through?

[PIF]

“Are PLAF pilots willing to do the equivalent of marching across a minefield in hopes that somebody makes it through?”

Their soldiers did in the Korea war, some armed with pitch forks or nothing at all. And into heavy machine gun fire. Human waves. Do what you are told or be shot.