I don’t know why. I think they should. A squadron of these fictional “dragons” would be invincible. An F22 despite it’s technology has limited range, limited radar, limited armament.
That’s the limitations of a small fighter.
Probably the reason why large planes historically were relegated as bombers is because they didn’t have guided missiles back then. In the age of BVR fighting, manueverablity is antiquated and useless. What counts is having stealth, a powerful radar, powerful missiles so that you can see first, shoot first, and run away.
If China focused on improving their radars to such that they were significantly superior by a factor of 2, even a J-8 armed with 8 ramjet missiles can defeat F22. It doesn’t matter that an F22 is more manuerverable. Heck, the F22 wouldn’t even see it coming until it’s too late. Whoever sees the enemy first, will win.
That’s another thing China should focus on. Developing Ramjet missiles. Use conventional fuel for getting it up to speed, and then turn on the ramjets at supersonic speed!
An active guided ramjet based missile with a range of 400km would be awesome.
China should also develop laser weapons to replace bullets for short range fighting. Also China should work on it’s invisiiblity technology.
The J-10 is ancient technology. It’s good enough for now but in 10 years, it will be outdated. They need to hurry up on developing the JXX and J10C.
I think theres a reason between u and USAF, they are alot smarter and they know what they are doing!.
There is still a LONG time till missiles with much longer ranges can have a very good hit ratio. Even the AIM-120C has a lower hit ratio, longer range missiles like the Phoenix can be easily dodged by manuverable fighter, but they were designed to hit bombers. It still takes time to perfect BVR missiles, but for now there is a reason why they still want smaller, stealthier and manuverable fighters, not huge ass planes with big radars and BVR missiles.
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