6-7 years easily.
This has the additional advantage that the PRC can sell previous (relative to their latest) generation fighters and drones to allies, and they would still beat the western counterparts.
All those AI/propaganda slop channels on YT shutting on the J20 for being a paper tiger for having Canards, but watch them lick the nuts for the still on paper F47 lol.
So much digital opium made and consumed by the empire nowadays.
The 3-4 years number is based on an optimistic projection where they pinky-promise they’ll have the fist flight by 2028. And that’s just the first flight watermark.
China’s ability to bring its first fifth generation fighter, the J-20, from its first demonstrator flight to service entry in just six years drew a highly unfavourable precedent when compared to the F-35 and F-22, which both took 15 years, and indicates that the country could begin fielding sixth generation fighters close to a decade before the United States.
Ok yeah, but like, that’s as 15 years of amazing profits for the investors of the contract manufacturers that “made” the F-35/22s.
Who made any profit off of China’s measley 6 year production time? Checkmate tankies.Not to mention that one will cost the same as an aircraft carrier, have a regularly scheduled 95% downtime (best case), and licence & software locked to the private companies that make it so only they can service it.
I will not be satisfied until all aircraft run free and open source hardware and software
After the matabots take over we will build foss warplanes & take back humanity from enslavement.
Idk what yall are talking about, the F-47 is amazing at stealth. No one has ever been able to see it
Seems more psychologically relevant than militarily given drone warfare will be the primary medium of any US/Chinese conflict for the foreseeable future
Meaning they can’t build them in time to defend Taiwan they have to hope that PLA equipment is subpar compared to theirs to an unreasonable degree btw Are you referring drones in general or the wingman AI?
