The US military had known the real combat power of the PLA long ago! Two F35s attempted to invade our territorial waters, but were locked by our J-16, breaking the myth of US stealth.

It turns out that the US military had already known the real combat power of our military. The US F35 tried to invade our territorial waters with its stealth capabilities, but was detected by our radar, and our J-16 quickly took off for interception.

To be honest, the dogfighting capability of the F35 is completely no match for the J-16. The maneuverability of the PLA's J-16 exceeded the expectations of US pilots. The F35 tried to lock onto our J-16, but our J-16 performed a large defensive roll, and the F35 tried to follow but failed. They were head-to-head for about ten seconds (as shown in the figure below), which shows that the thrust-to-weight ratio of the F35 and the J-16 are not on the same level. The maneuverability of the F35 is really extremely poor.

What's more unexpected for the US military is that the J-16 managed to lock two F35 aircraft at once.

This also sends an important signal to the US military: the onboard radar of our fighter jets have the ability to counter stealth. When facing our fourth-and-a-half-generation fighters, the US F22 and F35 no longer have an advantage.

After all, without the stealth advantage, once the US aircraft is locked by our PL-15 missile with a 200-kilometer range, it means direct destruction.

In conventional understanding, there is a big gap in performance between fourth-and-a-half-generation and true fifth-generation aircraft, although they only differ by half a generation.

However, this report by CCTV proves that the J-16, a fourth-and-a-half-generation aircraft, can completely defeat the F35, a fifth-generation aircraft, in one-on-one combat without any system support. This undoubtedly proves that the combat power of the PLA's weapons has reached another level.

Therefore, this confrontation caused a great psychological shock to the US military, and the F35 will no longer dare to provoke our territorial waters afterwards.

If the F35 is this bad, what is the real combat power level of the US Navy? It really needs to be questioned.

Original article: www.toutiao.com/article/1844956330493056/

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