
Rumor has it that every muscle on China’s body represents a US soldier they tried to bribe for classified intel. The F-22 fucking smokes literally anything China has made or will make for the next 20 years. Diesel-powered aircraft carriers aren’t the future, I bet their planes can’t even get off the ship without the handicap ramp
I was wrong about the ramp, their lonely Fujian carrier uses an EM catapult and was commissioned in November 2025. Still second to the Gerald R. Ford for an EM catapult, still diesel (we’ve had nuclear-powered since Big E in 1958), and still outclassed in any other way. Even France mogs the Fujian with the Charles de Gaulle, the only non-American nuclear-powered carrier
I dont think we could fly F-22s over China without getting shot down if I’m being honest. But that doesn’t mean the J-20 is near the F-22 in terms of capability, I just mean that flying over Chinese land would be really dangerous. And obviously we’d have to station in like. Korea since F-22 combat radius is tiny
Most of a war with China would probably be fought over the ocean since most of their population lives near their east coast. The main thing China’s military has on ours would be numbers and the fact their navy figures include just about any boat with an engine. Civilian fishing vessels would become Schrödinger’s war crime. Even though the F-22 doesn’t have sea legs, it’d be insane for defending SK, Taiwan, and Japan but also for intercepting over the South and East China Seas
Oh yeah if they tries to do Taiwan, we’d probably be able to intercept a few J-20s but I don’t think we could hold air superiority because they are right there and could use SAMs over it. But obviously that’s not the strategy, the strategy is to make a land invasion of Taiwan a hellscape
We’re not 100% sure on their tech capabilities, but they’re more than likely not what they seem. For example, their standard of stealth is way lower than ours. Top Chinese and Russian stealth fighters only have a reduced cross-section while US stealth is nearly invisible to radar. Same thing with “hypersonics.” The US metric for a hypersonic is a terminal hypersonic while China’s hypersonic metric is anything that reaches Mach 5 (which we’ve had since the V-2 Rocket)
Point being that China (and other adversaries’ tech for that matter) is often overstated and undertested. I mean look at how our Cold War surplus is doing against Russian modern equipment in Ukraine. Not to mention that China hasn’t been directly involved in a war since 1979. Their last-gen is rotting away, their current gen can hardly be called field-tested, and their 5th gen is probably gonna severely underperform. All that and mandatory service means it’ll be more one-sided than you’d think