Re:F-35 Program Achieves Full Rate Production
by decafninja on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @09:16PM
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China has more than 200+ J-20s and growing. The J-31 is there too, but likely in smaller numbers for carriers?
Your point on how effective they really are or not is on point though. Ukraine has shown a lot of Russian wunderwaffe aircraft performing less than spectacularly.
There are still a few other 4th-generation fighters in production, some with modernized systems, but at this point they're only suitable for a limited set of defensive or low-intensity missions. Russia and China supposedly also have operational 5th-generation fighters now but it's unclear whether those actually work, and they can't build enough to even supply their own forces let alone exports.