Quote:
Originally Posted by Azure
The F-22 is already unstoppable even if they handicap it.
Air to air combat, you can't hit what you can't see. Nobody talks about how insanely good of a fighter jet it is because they didn't screw it up, but China and Russia are at a severe disadvantage.
Military industrial complex and all, I'm always amazed at the engineering prowess of the brilliant minds at the big military companies that come up with these things.
|
It makes me wonder how good the Chinese J-31 is going to be, it looks like a virtual copy of the F-35. Its pretty clear that the Chinese have become really good at spying and gaining secrets.
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the...who-wins-13938
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the...fighters-13477
To me the Russians and Chinese are closing the gap on airpower fairly quickly and are attempting to close the gap in terms of naval aviation with the introduction of full sized carriers instead of the half carriers that both were working on before.
In terms of submarine technology, the Russians have been closing the gap with the American Navy and in some ways might have taken a small leap ahead with their latest classes of of boats. The Chinese though seem to be having some significant design problems with their next gen SSN's.
In terms of missile technology the American's and Russians are literally working on the same thing with hyper fast stealth based cruise missiles, but the Russians seem to be pulling ahead with their deterrence ICBM technology.
Tank and land force wise, the Russians are closing the gap in terms of fire power and protective technology with the M1A1 and the Chinese are already looking at purchasing the T14 tank and T15 armored fighting vehicle.
The Russians are also working on upgrading their arctic and land based naval aviation units as well, the Pak DA is expected to enter service in the next 7 to 10 years and is a four engine stealth hypersonic long range bomber.