If I read the article correctly, they are planning to update to the F-15EX, but only in a limited number. To fight of the modern Chinese forces, we are going to need numbers. Stalin might not be a great military intellect, but he was right when he said “quantity IS a type of quality.”
The T-34 and Sherman tanks were proof of that.As one German anti tank gunner said,”We knocked out 20 Shermans when we ran out of shells. Then here comes tank 21.”