Let's be honest the US hasn't even managed to make itself rule the world for a couple of years from when they had the chance after ww2 to immediately getting humiliated in 2 large scale wars in a row.
Oh man. It's like Saddam thinking coalition would drop dozens of bombs on Baghdad.
Yeah if Japan attacks China, it'll be hundreds of hypersonics to kick down the air defense doors followed by 10 000s of drones in each wave flooding into city blocks and infrastructure. And Kyushu (close enough for MLRS and the most cheap shaheds) alone houses 10% of all Japan's people.
That's why there's J-20s and J-16s flying at standoff ranges behind the drone waves, so when an enemy fighter tries to intercept it, they're spotted by an ISR drone mixed into the bunch, and what happened to the Ukrainian F-16 happens except on an industrial scale.
How in the frig does a f-16 falling out of the sky scare Russia and China when all it does is demonstrate how crap f-16 are nowadays. If any thing China and Russia should be worried as to whether the USA is collapsing a little too fast into pure madness that this will mean more paper trying to decipher how on earth their opponents can be so self destroying and stupid at the same time as this isn’t natural
What a load of spin...! If you've seen Scott Ritter talk about this... these F-16s donated to Ukraine are old and living out to their near expiration dates with Ukraine. Meaning they don't have the latest technologies because they're heavier and the expired airframes can't handle the extra weight. The countries that donated them haven't been flying them because they could break up in the stress of just flying. They're trying to make it sound like because the "advanced" F-16 that has never been shot down was shot down by "their own" Patriot technology shows how easily the US can handle adversaries.
Because US hasn't fought a war since Vietnam, and that war they arguably didn't even win in terms of casualty losses. Their real enemies China + USSR threw Vietnamese bodies and lost only some mercs and a few advisors.
Yeah, they must play the whole Jai Hind music as they fly around while everyone ignores them because they want to fly into China to bomb something but they end up bombing their stupid selves because they couldn’t read a friggen map (it’s upside down btw). I mean what experience do they have in a real fight anyhow
What did the Pakistan fighter pilot tells his commander over at base HQ? "Prepare some good tea for this soon to be ejecting from his plane Indian pilot. I got a good locked on."
