WORLD: USAF Fighter Mix Changing at Kadena; $9 Billion in F-22 Updates; CCAs Arrive Before NGAD; Re-engined B-52 becomes B-52J; T-7 Delayed til 2025; A-10s, E-3s to the Boneyard.
China J-20
The Next-Generation Air Dominance family of systems remains highly classified. But some details are beginning to emerge.
Chinese officials at the Zhuhai air show forecast an increase in production and shortened development time for stealth fighters, without giving specifics. To match the U.S. Air Force's fifth-generation fighter inventories—not even including the Department of the Navy's—China would have to build 125 such jets ...
China's military technological growth matches that of the U.S. in most ways and sets the pace for how rapidly the U.S. must modernize, the Defense Intelligence Agency told the Senate Armed Services Committee. Russia, though, faces serious challenges in keeping up broadly, although it will ...
