Re:The F-35 is losing the trade war
by cm2187 on Saturday August 23, 2025 @03:53PM
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Well, technically Pakistan shot a Indian Rafale with a Chinese made missile a few months ago, which created some consternation in France. I heard the French explaining it away, as India trying to bomb some Pakistani territory without hitting the Pakistani military, hence putting their jet fighters in unecessary harm's way. I am not qualified to draw my own conclusions on the quality of Chinese weapons but it seems to imply they can certainly do significant damage.
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Rafale was shot down by J-10 plane using PL-15 missile.
Rafale, Eurofighter and J-10 are old 20+ years designs.
Europe has nothing equivalent to Chinese J-35 or even previous generation J-20.
> Europe has nothing equivalent to Chinese J-35 or even previous generation J-20.
How many J-35s does China have?
Re:The F-35 is losing the trade war
by LargoLasskhyfv on Saturday August 23, 2025 @08:44PM
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According to Wikipedia: 8+, so more than eight?
That’s… not really very many.
8+ J-35, 1 prototype J-36, 1 prototype J-50 and 250+ J-20. Europe has nothing like that.
Are you talking about manufacturing or operating? Europe has something like 225 F-35 operational right now with more coming.
Manufacturing.
Re:The F-35 is losing the trade war
by actionfromafar on Saturday August 23, 2025 @07:31PM
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To be fair, China doesn't have anything like the J-35 either, it's a prototype.
And I hope they removed the Lockheed Martin logo from the CAD files before sending them to manufacturing!