China's New Stealth Fighter

[cabri]

And the pilots. Don't forget the pilots.

There's simply no comparison to the training the top USAF (and allied air forces) pilots are going to be getting vs. Chinese.
Maybe a few decades from now that will change, but Chinese pilots are simply not on the same level.

The training out pilots get is so good that a unarmed P3 (prop plane) can take out a Chinese pilot flying an armed MIG. :thumbsup:

 

[spacejamz]

And the pilots. Don't forget the pilots.

There's simply no comparison to the training the top USAF (and allied air forces) pilots are going to be getting vs. Chinese.
Maybe a few decades from now that will change, but Chinese pilots are simply not on the same level.

and tactics/strategy/infrastructure...without these, everything else is nearly useless in an actual fight....

 

[kage69]

Stop acting like other countries unproven tech is any better than our own unproven tech.

Stop ignoring parts of my replies. You bolded the word "supposedly," how about you act like it? You want my opinion on something specific, ask for it, but you don't get to tell me what I think about nameless technology.

If anything we have the only proven planes on the planet in actual conflict.

Really? So the Harrier, Jaguar, Mirage, Tornado, various Migs, none of these are proven huh? Interesting.

AFAIK the Russian mitigation strategy involves using the "superior maneuverability" of their Su-27/35 etc. to dodge the first missile. Some strategy.

You been watching a lot of cartoons over at Mongrels house, haven't you?

Luckily for Russian pilots, you're very much incorrect.

The airframe is just an airframe. There isn't a whole lot you can really do to make it better. The F-16 already does 9'gs and can pass anybody out. The weapons and computers are where all the innovation matters.

The assumptions you armchair professionals work on never fail to crack me up. Gilding it all with tidbits of ignorance and wishful thinking is supposed to make it sound better, right?

Gonna copy that to my bud who is still at Eglin, he could probably use the laugh.