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.
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.
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.
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.