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> It will lose a fight against a true 5th generation air-superiority stealth fighter (an F-22 or equivalent).

Are these expected to be in any theatre at all in the near future? Any fighters like that seem at least a decade or two in the future, if not three.




Well, the F-22 has been in service for over 15 years. The J-20 is probably not quite an equivalent, but I wouldn't want to count on that. Su-57 numbers might be too small to matter, but again do you want to count on that? The F-35 isn't equipped to fight against a peer adversary, so you're essentially relying on the geopolitical situation to continue to be that there isn't one.




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