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sent this to my lib friend and he sent back some cope about how the J20 is even worse actually ("if you believe the leaks"), the problem is inherent to stealth coatings, and actually its not that much worse of a rate than the f22 or the b1/b2. Not sure why "all our other planes are shitty too" is supposed to be better lol
I basically just said the f35 program had a 10 year lead on the j20 and that I haven't seen any such leaks. Maybe the more relevant thing is that china doesn't have a huge fleet of them (yet anyhow), and doesn't really need to, given that they aren't engaging in globe spanning armed conflicts like the US likes to. And that the f22 used to have a better availability rate but it's plummeting
That last bit is the elephant in the room. US wants to have a global empire and this means being able to project force anywhere across the world. This requires far more resources than simply being able to defend yourself or even project power in a particular region. US is forced to spread their resources ever thinner, while their adversaries keep getting stronger. A great example of this problem has been recently seen with Russia backing DPRK which pins a ton of US resources in the occupied Korea.
Fancy way of saying, "our new airplane is 10 years older than their new airplane"...