Why China is Terrified of US Airforce

As it is said, the largest Air force in the world is the US Air Force and the second largest Air Force is the US Navy

Don't you just love being a US citizen or an ally knowing you have the best of the best keeping your ass safe? It feels good going to sleep at night knowing that

As Rooster once said, "it's not about the plane, it's the pilot", USAF enjoys a rich history of aerial warfare, experienced pilots are one of its valuable assets.

It should be noted that more and more questions are being raised about CCP says the actual size of China's economy and even its actual population size. Also the US has to act as if everything China says is true (even when it stretches believably) so as to never be taken by surprise. So the US has to continually push its systems to beat the capabilities the enemy claims to have. Its thinking like this that made the Gulf War in 1991 such a one sided fight. The US/Allies acted as if Iraq was a juggernaut as it claimed, only to crush its military beyond anything seen in modern history.

It isn’t just that the US Air Force is numerically superior. It is superior in every facet of combat. The US is more experienced, has much better technology, is much more reliable, and has better training.

The difference between designing your own aircraft and reverse engineering someone else's designs is that when you design something from the ground up, you take into consideration what is practically feasible given the manufacturing capability that is available to you. Each component of your aircraft is sourced from a manufacturer that is mature and specialized in their own field that allows them to be self sufficient. However, when you steal designs or reverse engineer the weapons from another country, you are no longer operating with the same manufacturing capability as that country. You are no longer sourcing parts from independent and mature industries. You are subsidizing the creation of entirely new facilities and factories who's only purpose is to build that one highly specialized and unique gizmo or gadget that goes into your stolen weapons platform. That factory that you just snapped into existence isn't turning a profit on it's own. It's existence relies on the continued subsidies that your government will have to provide if you want to keep manufacturing that unique gizmo. The US is lucky that it is highly technologically developed and it's allies are as well. It can source it's technology from dozens of highly advanced economies with well established industries. China does not have that privelege. It has to build everything from scratch, and that's going to cost them a pretty penny.

Everyone is correct in pointing out that the US technological and logistical capabilities are years ahead of China's. But the other aspect is that Western democracies run by civilian governments simply build better weapons. Our best talent is retained and put to work developing better technology instead of being lost abroad. It's not a perfect system because sometimes we build things that do not perform, but we learn from these mistakes. Ask yourself how many people sign up to emigrate to Europe or the US every year?.. 5 million? ten million? Then compare this to the number of skilled workers looking to emigrate to China every year?.. 🤔

I’m an Australian and I follow defence matters with deep interest. Of course I’m no expert of any kind, but it strikes me that the US military is the strongest, best funded, most adept formation in history. It’s only historical peer would be the Roman Empire at its peak. I suspect - with absolutely nothing to support my suspicions- that a good chunk of China’s military is about as good as Russia’s. A hollow, graft-riven enterprise that will possibly crumble in a fight against the free world. Hope I’m right.

China definitely gets the award for most improvement. But that’s not enough to take on the best.

The training of the US Navy and Air Force is vastly superior. It is not just who has the better equipment....which the US does.

This mostly ignored/glossed over a big issue. There is a "learning curve" to air combat, especially naval aviation. The US has spent about a century perfecting this and still received a very nasty lesson when the Japanese "showed up how it's done" at the start of WWII. Even if China catches up on technology, they have even more catching up to do with how to properly utilize the assets.

Hopefully no one leaves $1.7 billion of our equipment in a desert somewhere where the Chinese can buy it and reverse engineer it....

China's aviation game as a whole needs work, both civilians and military pale in comparison to their western counterpart. As for the US, when your national symbol is a bird, you better be good in the air😂.

Military experts agree that the greatest advantage of China is that its fighter planes would be fighting near its home bases in mainland China and the artificial islands it built in the SCS. Philippine President Marcos absolutely erased that advantage by allowing the US access to more military bases/ areas in the Philippines. US planes are now less than 2 flight hours away from parts of the Chinese mainland near Taiwan. The Philippines solved the gargantuan logistics problem of the US as the Americans can now position in the Philippines as much supplies and weaponry they need and not rely solely on their supply ships or far away bases in Guam, Japan or South Korea. Artificial islands militarized by China can now be easily targeted by landbased fighter planes, missiles and drones from the Philippines. China really made a huge mistake when it continued harrassing Filipino fishermen and naval vessels only days after Marcos Jr visited China in an attempt to better Philippine-China relations and stop the bullying of Chinese maritime militias and Coast guard in the SCS.

One example is that jet engines typically have turbine blades made out of a single crystal. Reverse engineering can tell you what it is, but it can't tell you how it was made.

All this without mentioning once that the second largest air force in the world is the United States Navy.

NICE! I'm proud to be an American again....its been a minute (now all we gotta do is stop fighting each other...I blame low self esteem, such anger. Sad) thx infographics. We're stronger together!

We have actual experience in combat that they completely lack.

The jet problem is the same as the rocket problem. In order to reach higher speeds, you need more fuel. More fuel and larger planes means more weight, which means you'll need even MORE fuel to reach those high speeds and sustain those speeds for long flight periods. The US military pours hundreds of billions of dollars into research and development, even without the immediate need for better equipment. That's because as we've all seen during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, if you can't maintain a large high tech military force, you might as well bring out the WW2 and Cold War tech

China doesn't have 16T economy.... It's an lie..... They may have 6 to 6.5 T economy