Fuchs:

I am getting a little mixed up with all this talk of MiGs and Messerschmitts. I understand the importance of using historical analogies but a lot of things are fundamentally different now vs. then. Missiles really work well now and stealth does give you some advantage. So the most important thing to be derived from the history of air combat is that sheer performance gives you an advantage.

The J-20 is likely to have a sheer performance advantage over anything but the F-22. The J-20 has some stealth and will have a good radar and missiles that will work. The J-20 will not have to escort alpha strikes in order to totally wreck us. It can do that by acting as a missile shooting on high interceptor and by destroying things like AWACS, C-17s and tankers. The only thing that could stop it are F-22s. We will not have enough F-22s to do the job. I will bet that the Chinese will get the J-20 into squadron service much more quickly than we think and I will bet that they make considerably more than 187,

We have no idea how to fight and win without air superiority. The J-20 can take that away from us. This is very serious.