China🇨🇳 vs USA🇺🇸 — Air Force:
81 AWACS (50 KJ-500, a generation ahead) vs ~16 obsolete E-3s
520 J-20s vs 184 F-22s — 90s tech, production dead
Two 6th-gen types flying; NGAD a PowerPoint.
KJ-3000 flown, E-7 nowhere.
The lead keeps widening.
Coping in 2026: “F-22 still king.”
🇨🇳J-20: GaN AESA—a generation ahead of 🇺🇸F-22’s GaAs.
PL-15 vs AIM-120D: rifle vs pistol, 200km+ vs ~160km. First shot, no reply.
Combat radius: ~2,000km vs ~900km.
Raptor production died in 2011. The cope didn’t.
The king is J-20.