Not to mention all the OTHER aircraft that have been designed, prototyped and built by allies or in partnership with allies that could also be built if a threat emerged.
Nor to mention that a threat requiring vast over-whelming air superiority isn't likely to emerge from nowhere. You can't design, build and get invisible aircraft into operation. If China is looking like getting the edge, or Russia, or Magicistan, then there will be time to handle it. Just as there would be if it looked like China was getting a navy any time soon.
But, hey, I know people don't like the facts to get in the way of a good bit of paranoia.
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Date: 2009-11-05 10:19 pm (UTC)Nor to mention that a threat requiring vast over-whelming air superiority isn't likely to emerge from nowhere. You can't design, build and get invisible aircraft into operation. If China is looking like getting the edge, or Russia, or Magicistan, then there will be time to handle it. Just as there would be if it looked like China was getting a navy any time soon.
But, hey, I know people don't like the facts to get in the way of a good bit of paranoia.