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Top 5 World Airforces in 2020(General predictions)

Been doing some research but I think it is clear that in the future we’ll know how the Top 5 Airforces will shape up

It is unclear how things will turn up by 2020 but we can predict.

Most of these are unclear in exact numbers but should be somewhere around there

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??? unsure how many
+ probably more/possibly more
– probably less/possibly less
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1) United States
-340+- F-22 Raptors
-2500/3000+ F-35s(IF all delivered by then)

2) Russia
– ??? Su-34s(unclear, sopposed to replace Su-17s/24s/25s, Mig-27s, Tu-22s/142s all in Russian AF and Navy)
-??? PAK-FAs(intended to replace Mig-29s and Su-27s)
Note: Su-34, PAK-FA and Yak-130 are the 3 main Aircraft planed for the Russian AF in the future, this means no Su-35s/37s probably

3) China
-??? Su-30MKK Flankers(possibly/anywhere up to 700)
-Anywhere from 200 to 1500 J-10s (a Sukhoi leak said AT LEAST 1200-1500 planed)
-Posssibly/At Least? 200+- J-9s(FC-1)
-??? J-12(sopposed to phase out most of J-9s/10s/11s[Flankers], though not all at once but)
Note: Given China’s large economy by then and superpower status expect China to build TONS of aircraft.

4) India
-200 LCAs+-(probably will enter service around 2006/2010/2012, geting mixed dates from everyone/everywhere)
-??? MCAs(very unclear but MCA will probably be around the corner in 2015-2020 and might replace all of Indian Airforce, though not all at once, but very slowly, and it is unclear when the MCA might enter service, judging by India’s lateness with LCA)
-260 Su-30MKI
-??? PAK-FA(India is already financing it)

5) Great Britain
-230- Eurofighter Typhoons
-150+- planed F-35s
-??? FOAS(should be entering service around 2020, its possible that it might not be developed)

5) France
-360 Rafales(around 300 for Airforce +60 for Navy)

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Other random ones we’ll know how they MIGHT turn out by 2020

UAE
-90 M2Ks
-80 F-16blk 60

Germany
-180 Typhoons

Sweden
-200 Gripens

Turkey
-at least 150+ F-35s

Greece
-60+ EF2000s, at most 90
-F-35s probably

Japan
-100+ F-2s
-possibly F-35s
-possibly next generation Japanese 5th generation plane

Pakistan
-150+ J-9/FC-1/JF-17s
-??? ?????????(something probably more advanced than the FC-1, possibilities are Rafale OR J-10, numbers unclear)

Italy
-120 Typhoons
-Possibly F-35

Spain
-80 Typhoons
-Possibly F-35s

Australia
-At most 100- F-35s(to relace F/A-18 Hornets and F-111s)

Austria
-18 Typhoons

Canada
-??? F-35s(to replace CF-18 Hornets)

Poland
-48 F-16s blk5-/52
-36 ??????(to replace Mig-29s and Su-22s by 2010/2012)

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