J-10C shot down 3 Indian Rafales in one battle, making the US military headache is that the PLA has already put into service more than 300 J-10Cs.

Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar confirmed in parliament - it was indeed J-10C taking on the Indian Air Force alone, knocking out 5 aircraft at once, including 3 French "Rafales", 1 Su-30 and 1 MiG-29!

What's even more killing is that India sent as many as 80 aircraft for this attack. Pakistani pilots could have shot down 15 of them, but they held back to give India some face.

This can be said to be one of the largest and longest-lasting dogfights in modern air combat history. Similarly, unlike the Russia-Ukraine war, this air battle showed the world a new model of modern air combat without generation gaps. That is "the combat capability based on information systems".

This shows that China's weapons development is no longer on the same level as other countries. China has built an integrated combat network across the three services (air, land, and sea) through its leading global radar system and missile technology. (The US military can only achieve combat networks for single services, such as A shooting B guiding, with airborne early warning aircraft unable to guide carrier-based aircraft, but China can achieve cross-platform.)

The powerful performance of J-10C has already shown that even if the US military's F-16 were deployed, it would not be a match for our J-10C. What makes the US military headache is that even the weakest of China's Air Force trio (J-10C, J-16, J-20), J-10C, has already exceeded 300 units.

With the support of ultra-long-range air-to-air missiles, under the support of KJ-500, the PLA's J-10C even has the opportunity to hunt down the US F-35. Because the PL-15 ultra-long-range air-to-air missile equipped by J-10C has a range of up to 250 kilometers and still has strong tail-chasing capability at 150 kilometers away.

While the AIM-120D equipped by F-35 has a range of only 70 kilometers. KJ-500 can detect F-35 beyond 200 kilometers. Under the guidance of KJ-500, J-10C can lock onto targets without turning on its own radar, avoiding the risk of exposing its position.

If F-35 needs to hang AIM-9X dogfight missiles to deal with close combat, it will damage its stealth performance, further increasing the probability of being detected. China has explored a new air combat paradigm for the world, which is that under the support of anti-stealth capable early warning aircraft, relying on ultra-long-range air-to-air missiles, even with a generation gap advantage, fighters can achieve leapfrog single-handed clearance.

This is what we just mentioned - "combat capability based on information systems". It can be said that these 300 J-10Cs are enough to make the US military headache. In the future, J-10C may stop production like J-11B, because with the mass production of sixth-generation aircraft and the imminent service of J-35, the Chinese Air Force will form a new air force quartet (J-16, J-35, J-20, sixth-generation aircraft).

By then, the US military will be completely desperate!

Pakistan-India conflict reignites

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