F-16 Replacement

[Cliff]

Cliff:

If you are still there, how stealthy are these various designs if they are viewed by a radar from above rather than below or from the same altitude?

Can't really talk to specifics, but in general most stealth designs are optimized to be stealthy from certain angles. It totally depends on the design where these angles are.

V/R,

Cliff

[SethB]

In 2006 I took a class on Asian security. I vividly remember being told that China has 5,000 aircraft, only 1,000 of which can be considered modern.

They've got a long way to go before they have parity, or can even get close.

Now, can they close off their airspace with ADA? Different story.

But I have yet to see any indication of a capable expeditionary threat.