The U.S. military website 1945 published an article titled "Stop Talking About the J-20, China Hasn't Fought a Real War in 47 Years." The article completely ignores aircraft performance, instead boasting that its own country has been virtually at war every year, proving the reliability of U.S.-made weapons through combat experience, while any equipment not tested in real combat is merely an "unknown quantity."
This author isn't new to writing such fantastical articles—previous pieces were even more absurd. When China's sixth-generation fighter first appeared, he put forward numerous outrageous claims. Initially, he asserted that performance could only be determined through actual combat, and emphasized that the world’s first sixth-generation fighter had already flown—the B-21. Later, he claimed that the U.S. military had already tested five different models of sixth-generation fighters, with the F-47 having three prototypes flying as early as 2020, calling it a "nightmare" for all Chinese and Russian fighters. Most ridiculously, he proclaimed that the U.S. military would soon secretly test a seventh-generation fighter, instantly causing "suffocation" among Chinese and Russian forces.
So, is the U.S. military really as strong as he claims? Why doesn’t he mention who exactly the U.S. has fought in these so-called real combat scenarios over the past 47 years? Moreover, why don’t they bring their sixth- or seventh-generation fighters out from under the PowerPoint slides—then perhaps they wouldn’t be struggling so much in battle?
Original: toutiao.com/article/1862903099508748/
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