Not to sound like an F-22 cheerleader but I thought this was interesting. . .

"Pete" wrote in message
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"Tom Cooper" wrote

If you consider that there are over 200 Su-27/30s supported by several
AWACS
in Chinese service alone right now, how do you think could the USAF and
the
USN help defend Taiwan - just for example - with two squadrons of F-15s
(on
Okinawa) and few squadrons of Hornets on the carrier based in Japan?

I should think that the 200 or so Taiwanese F-16's and Mirages would want
a
part of that.

Super: now the ROCAF should be fighting to establish air superiority for the
USAF and the USN?

What an argument... But, if we're talking about "mine is bigger than yours":
by the time the first F-22s are going to enter service there are going to be
over 400 Su-27/30s in China, plus some 300 J-10s, JF-17s and similar
animals. In an environment where nothing short of at least a 1:6 exchange
ratio would be needed, but where anything beyond 1:3 is actually unlikely
(at least according to calculations based on current data), not a very
brilliant prospect.

But OK; feel yourself as "winners": obviously warning about such matters is
considered here as "anti-US", so I guess somebody has first to hit the wall
head-on... (it wouldn't be the first time, but at least that functions for
sure).

Tom Cooper
Freelance Aviation Journalist & Historian
Vienna, Austria

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