US Air Force is losing its tech edge (over China)

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This video shows how the technology used in US and Chinese military planes compared over the last 20 years. And how the technological edge that the US once enjoyed steadily eroded over time.
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00:00 - Intro
02:00 - Air power and technological edge
02:56 - Tactical combat planes in 2003.
04:03 - Jet generation in 2003.
04:39 - Missiles in 2003.
05:09 - Special mission planes in 2003.
06:17 - Missile usage in 2003.
06:35 - Fighter jet radars in 2003.
07:16 - Tactical combat plane numbers in 2013.
07:54 - Generations in 2013.
08:17 - Missiles in 2013
08:44 - Radars, AEW&C and special mission planes in 2013
10:14 - Numbers and generations in 2018.
10:46 - Missiles and radars in 2018
11:04 - New missiles in 2018
12:24 - AEW&C in 2018.
13:51 - Special mission planes in 2018.
14:02 - Modernisation and sensors in 2018
15:12 - Numbers and AESA radars today
15:51 - Missiles and generations today
16:37 - AEW&C today
17:01 - Special mission and jamming
17:43 - Latest missiles and bombs
18:44 - Targeting pods
19:04 - Stealth
19:25 - Drones and radars
20:40 - Conclusion
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[@tommos1]

Binkov has triggered a whole lot of people with this video.

[@hazirnata]

Funny and interesting at once 😅🤣

[@Messerschmitt_BF_109G_10]

Waiting for him to get Unhacked.

[@localman9063]

@@Messerschmitt_BF_109G_10 Lol. You're clearly one of the people he's triggered.

[@Messerschmitt_BF_109G_10]

@@localman9063 Because what he was saying isn't even remotely close to truth dude. He's never acted like that in his previous videos, that's why we're saying he's hacked. We're talking about misinformation, fool

[@voidtempering8700]

​@@Messerschmitt_BF_109G_10 How is any of this misinformation?

[@BigBossIvan]

A lot of cope in these comments. I served in the USAF until 2010. The qualify of Airman, and civilian for that matter, has drastically decreased. We are not a prideful innovative country anymore. This all makes sense.

[@zoobomafoo1]

​@@flaviustudor2889do you really think russians are stupid?

[@Liango-dz3kn]

@@flaviustudor2889Not trying to start a fight, but that description fits exactly America, except the part with sympathy

[@sababugs1125]

​@@zoobomafoo1 name the American version of the vuhledar attack

[@henrynagel7175]

Based off of a lot of the videos in ur favorites playlist, I doubt the legitimacy of this statement.

[@virginccyy7645]

Russian or Chinese troll alert!

[@Jesu-s0967]

Holy shit the amount of western and eastern bots in this comments is honestly disturbing to see how propaganda is spread by both sides

[@user-yd5we5cj8e]

谁告诉你得都是机器人啊~！怎么 牛逼得chatGPT这么快就被中国人利用了~！这点“高科技”也太low了，

[@a9s2w5]

Here's what I keep coming back to. TO THIS DAY, China has yet to design and develop a jet engine in house that is deployable to any aircraft. They have been trying for decades. All of their current aircraft, as well as the vast majority of military tech, are Soviet designs in origin. They have made modifications, some improvements etc. This is across the board, even their most recent aircraft carrier, it's fundamentally a copy of the first, which was purchased overseas. Their trucks, their tanks, radars, optics are all rooted from copies of Soviet era. And we see how that equipment has performend in Ukraine. To compound that, almost all engineering that is even deployed in China is engineered by Western companies. Even the most popular cars are licensed or were designed overseas. Their entire railway/subway infrastructure? Designed by foriegn companies and use foreign technology.

[@kitolz]

I would be surprised if China can even produce the alloys needed for their fighter jet engines. Even commercial plane parts are by and large imported.

[@isamu982]

Regarding engines, what about the xian ws-15?

[@Ottovonostbahnhof]

Majority of PLAAF fleet are equipped with domestic WS-10 engines . WS-15(F119 equivalent) enter mass production this year. China’s railway and subway system are the best in the world, US is not even close.

[@a9s2w5]

@@isamu982 They're still in the development and testing phase. It's only been this month of this year that they announced that they were endeavoring into serial production of a small scale, for test flights. But last Dec someone from a university connected to the design and development posted a since deleted and muffled video where they mentioned they were getting closer to having something that would go into the testing phase. Let's not forget that most of this technology was stolen from the US. After decades of struggling to design and produce something domestically they were able to acquire some stuff through espionage which has widely been reported in the past. Now let's now confuse this with actually deploying it into a fighter jet in active service. The reality is that production is actually the hardest part. You aren't just producing the engine, you're producing all the manufacturing capabilities, tooling etc. Just go produce an engine. Then you have to deploy it into whatever aircraft. To compound that, there are a lot of indications that the whole project was severely rushed bc people were pushed and that there are issues. Double compound that with the fact it's a hodge podge of the work from many projects. Also China has a long history of announcing many things, producing many prototypes, small runs etc... Years before they do. Most of which never came to be bc of all the issues encountered during the phases they would now be entering if you take their word. Even if all went well, you're still 5-10 years, likely closer to 10, before actually having an engine to move into production. And I don't know at all that that will be an easy path, especially as there are increasing restrictions on many things that they will need to overcome or design and produce domestically. But it's always possible for things to go the other direction. Just unlikely.

[@a9s2w5]

@@Ottovonostbahnhof Yes but it was designed by overseas companies.

[@whiteshark450]

I haven't read the comment yet but i can already taste the salt.

[@Nick-wh4jt]

Yes man you were absolutely correct I have a question. What are my winning lottery numbers this week

[@MrJdsenior]

@@Nick-wh4jt You play the lottery, boy does THAT explain a lot.

[@Nick-wh4jt]

@@MrJdsenior sarcasm is the highest form of wit. And you were just outwitted 👌😂 Your vag is leaking

[@vlhc4642]

The gap between American public belief in their capability vs their technical reality is so big,, when their bubble universe pops they're going to be so psychologically traumatized they might just become like Japan after the A-bomb, which is a good thing. I mean, imagine going to war thinking China has nothing better than 1970s Soviet jets, and an hour later your entire navy gets wipped out by Chinese orbital strikes....

[@prasanth2601]

Americans don't have any need to be salty. Because you know they are still superior in this field

[@rammylalramkumhlunsitlhou4354]

Never underestimate the Enemy

[@oldkid8811]

indeed. “There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent.” ― Lao Tzu

[@javiergiribaldi3579]

More than that they copy everything they don’t develop nothing just steal

[@MrCastodian]

@@javiergiribaldi3579 So what? Why develop for billions when you can copy and evolve for millions? All nations do it and have done it, it’s a smart way to frog leap the evolution. In the end, it’s just as good.

[@fmayer1507]

​@MrCastodian The issue is that the USA hides its true capability and has logistics to support any capability. Th e US Military always hypes enemy capability while downplaying its own capability capability

[@fmayer1507]

The US Air Force is more ready than any other nation. After we saw Russian performance in Ukraine, we should learn that other nations are full of hot air.

[@zetajolyne3689]

Unlike CCCP, China does not position itself as a global empire based on offensive ideology. It only needs to form a regional advantage over the United States in the east Asia. When analysing Sino-US conflicts, Americans can only count its partly military force in the Asia-Pacific.

[@mrawesomnable]

Chinas military can’t even travel across the ocean. All of our aircraft carriers are nuclear powered and can outnumber chinas Air Force with our superior aircraft that China has been attempting to copy for decades. Once the Air Force is taken care of we just bomb them into submission. And that’s just US not all of NATO.

[@hannahdyson7129]

I would not assume that China doesn't want to be in a position as a global empire based on offensive ideology . There are warning signs such as having secret police stations in Europe etc They have been an empire before . Its not unfeasible to think they want to be again The CCCP was elected by the people of China .

[@mikejhorn]

Currently they’re shooting for local hegemony, but their attack on the dollar and their “Roads and Bridges “ program throughout Africa, South America, and Europe shows their eventual plans.

[@Pirate_Knight27]

I don't think many people get the point of this video. He didn't say China has the advantage over the USA. He said the USA used to have a huge tech lead over China and China is now closing that gap very quickly. USA needs to innovate to keep its lead is the main point. (which it has been with the NGAD program and the B-21 Raider among other projects.)

[@werolo3520]

Correct.

[@juliane__]

I think they do. China needs to catch up another 10 or 20 years in development. But maybe tehy already do. It is like the Soviet Union, they have it, when you see it. But i guess China will not be able to catch up with the Wests innovative potential. Then i think about demographics and think will will see a second Soviet Union.

[@chen-qq7eg]

中国空军的战略目的是国土防卫。用大型预警机以及大量的双引擎重型战斗机将战场设置在太平洋海域。而不是把战场放在中国领空。中国的军事力量迅速崛起不只是空军力量，而且包括了海军和陆军以及火箭军（导弹军种，独立于陆军海军空军之外）由于高速的经济增长，实际带动了军事实力的高速增加。中国的经济仍然是最优先的，军队要为经济发展而让步，军费只占据中国GDP的1.5%。而美国的军费占据GDP的3.3%。美国需要在全球范围内维持数量庞大的军事基地（800+）。以维持美国的全球军事力量投送霸权，维持，一个小时内可以攻击地球上任意地点的能力。所以美国的空军战斗机是需求非常大的。而中国并不是没有能力制造更多的战斗机，中国是没有巨大的需求。中国只需要维持国土防御。防御范围是亚洲地区。另一点，中国的制造能力是非常强大的。军事工厂只占据非常小的一部分，绝大多数都是民用工厂。在战时的生产能力和民众的动员能力，是美国无法媲美的。美国人经常嘲笑中国是独裁政权，但是你们忽略的是“中国独裁政权”的全国动员能力和紧急状态的生产能力是西方国家远远无法媲美的。比如，钢铁生产力，中国每年钢铁生产10亿吨，美国仅为8000万吨，中国的钢铁生产量超过其他所有国家的总和，占据世界总生产量的53%。而这仅仅是非战时的生产量，还有一点是中国掌握了全世界的稀土开采量和生产能力，如果没有足够的稀土，美国甚至无法制造出导弹和战机。如果中国军队需求更多的武器，那么很轻易就能制造出远远超越美国的武器数量。就如同上文所说，中国的军力发展要为经济让步，经济发展是最优先的，中国的目标是先在经济上超越美国，在2030年。经济超越美国，并且完成去美元化的目标，那美国将没有足够的钱去维持庞大数量的军队。如果美国失去经济霸权那么美国的军事霸权也就即将失去了，采购任何武器都需要花费巨大的金钱。中国政府把更多的预算优先用于发展经济，建设经济。而不是投入军事上。但是美国似乎是相反，美国政府更加的看重和发展军事力量，需要维持全球军力，而经济增长速度缓慢。经济才是军队最强大的战斗力，并不是武器数量。这并不是在讨论战争，实际上中国人不讨厌美国人，只是非常讨厌美国的政府。和平仍然是中美人民的心愿，影响中国和美国关系的是政客们，并不是人民。

[@laisphinto6372]

thats typical for binkovs comment section, for some reason he is a Ukraine,russia , NATO, China propogandist at the same time. some people cannot imagine that the dude just gives his two sense into it

[@comlain2513]

those american innovations are simply not released to the public. so it may seem as if theres a gap closing.

[@thesolking2218]

Remember you’ll never know the true capabilities of each nation’s military

[@LiterallyOverTheHillAdventures]

True, but its performance in the past and how it trains can give you a decent indication of how it will perform.

[@thesolking2218]

@@LiterallyOverTheHillAdventures SOPs always change during combat

[@tonymills5086]

Okay, somewhat true but if we get into a fight and you have a butter knife, and I have a 357 Magnum who's more than capable of winning that fight? You must understand the hand is not quicker than the eye!

[@indiasuperclean6969]

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[@LiterallyOverTheHillAdventures]

@@tonymills5086 A .357 magnum in the hands of someone who does not know how to use it can loose to the man with the butter knife if he is an expert in hand to hand. But the F 22 is the most capible air supperiority fighter in the world, not to mention the F 35. The PLAAF relies upon rather early 4th Gen fighters than anything else. The PLAAF does not have any experience is managing ie, command and control, of the actual chaos that is air warfare. Just in the past month the US has forward deployed a squadron of F 22 to the region.

[@SoundsOfTheWild3]

Tech growth like that is not linear, and China is benefiting from the build up princple. Its easy to get rid of really old systems but as it continues to upgrade it will face headwinds from things like higher maintenance cost of the newer upended systems just like the Americans currently face. Thus, overtime China's tech growth will slow down.

[@mrknowitall8663]

No, they just sell their old stuff to Russia or give it to their sole ally North Korea to stop any advance from their south. They have 1.4 Billion people and the most massive industrial base the world has ever seen fueled by the 3 most massive oil producing nations on the planet Saudi Arabia, Russia and Iran. The US left billions of dollars of weapons and equipment for the Taliban...do you know why? Because we had warehouses of that stuff stockpiled and it would have costed more to bring it back so we left it. China is probably in the same situation. They probably have stockpiles of this stuff and not even scratching the surface. They are a huge factory. There wouldn't be maintenance cost. They could just produce a new one and not even think about it.

[@Captain_Crump]

@@mrknowitall8663 yup producing more and more shitty quality shit. Yk what they say made in china

[@vlhc4642]

The world's factory running $1 trillion a year in trade surplus can probably handle maintenance cost better than an de-indusrliazed country running $1 trillion a year of trade deficit.

[@demun6065]

I'd actually like to know the real term for the "build up principle". Interesting thoughts.

[@user-vw8ex6kn6b]

A large part of American military expenditure is to maintain overseas military bases.The cost of really investing a lot of weapons and equipment research and development and production will be similar to that of China.What's more, China's arms procurement is lower than that of the United StatesBecause we maintain a huge number of workers and production equipment.

[@kl9518]

With only one overseas military base, China is the only one that uses its military for defence. Americans have 800 overseas bases, with 400 surrounding China. Insane aggression.

[@Omni_Shambles]

China hasn't come out of China for over 2000 years.

[@user-hq2is7hh1j]

If your dad watched over your mom as us watches over china, you had no family issues(your mom is a bitch)

[@user-hq2is7hh1j]

@@Omni_Shambles they were killing and raping themselves. Couldnt afford devending allies oversees

[@reedsexton3973]

​@@Omni_Shambles Yeah, because they just claim that everything they want to invade was actually China the whole time. Ever heard of Tibet or Xinjiang? Or when they controlled Mongolia? Not to mention in 1979 they invaded Vietnam, that one they can't even deny.

[@tea1255]

In China, we have a joke when asked to rank the Air Forces in the world The answer is simple: 1. US Air Force 2. US marine corps aviation 3. US army

[@djibindom2341]

Never heard of that joke in China tho

[@jxmai7687]

真无趣😂

[@zongyangli5768]

that's 15 years ago.

[@Two-Checks]

Russia taught me all cards have to be put on the table before anyone can really know.

[@randyross5630]

You just weren't paying attention to actual analysts, just chewing up Russian Propaganda the Rural Conservative Christian Americans Gladdy Share because during the Cold War the Russians Infiltrated the Churches and more importantly Lodges the Rural Conservatives Live off of...

[@l0lzor123]

Unlike Russia the Chinese motto is to copy from the best and the military had been propping the usa as the superior enemy they have to surpass if you check out Chinese propaganda about the usa. Also unlike Russia who think they are the best, China admits they are not so they invested heavily into espionage and hacking to catch up, the csis got a list of Chinese espionage in the usa, its worth checking out. Schematics like the f35 program for hacked, same with the Navy getting hacked and the Chinese getting plans for nuclear powered subs, anti ship missiles and even the latest Chinese destroyer looks like a 1 to 1 of the future destroyer proposed by the us navy but was put on hold due to budget

[@voidtempering8700]

I mean, based on Russia. Involvement in Syria, the assumption would be that their military is highly competent. There is a big difference between fighting small forces that have a limited ability to fight back and a peer vs peer war.

[@Messerschmitt_BF_109G_10]

@@l0lzor123 Zumwalt?

[@indiasuperclean6969]

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[@PapaOscarNovember]

Things are certainly not looking good for US. In the National Defense Strategy released by Pentagon this year, the military recommended US use 'comprehensive defensive strategy', meaning to rely on combined use of military, diplomacy, economic/trade, soft power to counter China. One interpretation is that US military power is no longer a 'I win' button it used to be. When military itself is recommending not to rely on military alone, you know they are not confident they can prevail.

[@thetapheonix]

Well ya no duh, the military is just a big social experiment now. We meed to lose badly and be embarrassed globally so the administration can fall or change.

[@Solar-sx7kh]

or the loss of life and threat of nuclear fallout may not be worth the risk?

[@indiasuperclean6969]

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[@Dave-hu5hr]

You have to be on drugs if you think a couple of boats carrying planes could take on an unsinkable hive like China in it's own back yard.. 💊

[@somowon]

The blogger is very disappointing, using the map of China is actually wrong, the UN map of China with Taiwan, to you this is gone? How can we talk about fairness if we don't understand the most basic?

[@flyboymb]

Given how persistent the "Russia stronk" mythos was and how immensely overestimated their quality of military has been shown to be, I wouldn't be surprised if China has been using public perception to mask glaring weaknesses. We have yet to see their military engage in any real significant action. We have not seen the quality of their tactics nor the capability of their officers. All we have is what they say about their tech and what they say they can do.

[@gamingrex2930]

I will say the mid ranking chinese military staff are voracious learners and engineers, they have a quantitative and qualitative edge in anti ship missiles and brigade level motorized artillery and indirect fire support, they have finally scrapped their shitty bullpup for a pretty well designed AK/m4 lovechild and have very recently integrated night vision into their mountain assault troops. But at the same time they also have dated shit like 2nd in command political commissars attached to every brigade (yes the warhammer 40k kind of commissar, who is only there for "morale support and paper work, who will definitely not execute cowards for retreating or make stupid military moves") (i also cannot give you any source because i only learnt this fact through reading bilibili comment threads) and they clone russian engines, because puzzlingly they cant design their own decent jet engine designs yet. They are definitely a military rival, but even i dont fucking know how much meddling and internal politics will kill their military just like the Axis powers in WW2, the Soviets in Chechnya and US in vietnam.

[@user-gc1hg9sp9k]

Chinese militaey and russia military are pretty much different, russia military are pretty much stagnant after the fall of Soviet union and most of their equipment are from cold war soviet union. while china military are growth exponentially and their military equipment are brand new. And also China now are adopting western military tactic rather than russia. So assuming chinese military performance are like russia is pretty much absurd

[@gamingrex2930]

@@user-gc1hg9sp9k pretty much

[@trebrooks7]

I would take this with a grain of salt. So many countries have "caught up" then when it comes time to produce, they end up like Russia.

[@trebrooks7]

@Lycanthrope Prior to the Russo- Ukraine war, the collective internet cockringed the Russian military as a near peer to the US. It's not. With China, it's worse because, what conflict has it really been involved in? It's not proven. Neither has Iran, India or any other country onto hat end. It all sounds good, hypothetically.

[@ssglbc1875]

Russia has. Russia is just too poor sanctioned and corrupt to mass produce any of there prototypes

[@vlhc4642]

The time for NATO to produce is now, and NATO is barely keeping up with Russia.... In the grand scheme of things none of this even matter anymore, because when China already figured out Mach 20+ global hypersonic orbital strike in 2021, and US can't even figure out how to make Mach 5 ARRW work (look up the news), unless China in-explicitly refuse to use what they build, the entire US military is basically already dead.

[@Messerschmitt_BF_109G_10]

@Lycanthrope I would say, all 30 countries of NATO. Although, they were able to produce useful products.

[@Rousseau4469]

@@vlhc4642 Russia is a dead and finished case. All the Ukranians are waiting for now is for the soil in May or early June to dry up and with all the help in equipment they got from all Western countries they will kick out of Donbass Luhansk and Crimea the Russians. Remember how their counteroffensive worked and they got back what the Russians trying to occupy for at least 6 months? Possibly they will invade some kilometers into Russia to take over some nuclear silos for Russian Nuclear Command cut them of from it and manage to have some nukes in order to prevent again an new invasion from the Russians on their territory. Russia will be lucky if it doesn't experience some more regions to declare their independence from it. Last but not least they are in great danger from China that would easily embrace it lethally in the economic sector and literally make an economic invasion. On the other hand it would not be impossible to think that China will make an extensive military operation and cut a big chunk from its soil especially Siberia for its rich resources. As for comparing the two airforces Binkov hasn't actually followed closely the fact that Ngad is almost ready that US has found a new skin for it's F-22 that also allows them to be impervious to laser beams and that the US navy is equipping both its carriers and it's subs with pulse laser weapons with hundrends of kilometers range.

[@ghostlead6937]

On paper is one thing , on the field is another.

[@Chadmeleon]

Then let's test it out. Better not cry if you lose.

[@hannahdyson7129]

​@G G Bet you won't be doing the fighting and dying on ethier side

[@ghostlead6937]

@@hannahdyson7129 He will be hiding behind a good man that is ready to do harm to evil people.

[@jetli740]

yes like US VS vietnam and afghanistan?

[@ghostlead6937]

@@jetli740 Do you hear that 👂 🫢 Sounds like a pussy talking 🤣

[@SilvanaDil]

Riiiight. Even the Indians laugh at the J-20. China lost comms with its simple Mars land rover; meanwhile the American one has been launching helicopter drones on Mars.

[@BSPBuilder]

？？？ China's Mars Mission is a complete success. What the f are you talking about?

[@romell06]

Tech edge? Nope. Even with pilot training it doesnt even comes close with US. China even hired retired western fighter pilots to teach them.

[@boejiden7093]

Thats called filling in the gaps.

[@swedhgemoni8092]

They hired them to teach them the vulnerabilities in the platforms they piloted when they were still in service. Try being more slick if you want to be slimy.

[@romell06]

@@swedhgemoni8092 the thing is those platforms that was used by those retired pilots most of them are no longer and use and outdated. The weapon systems and avionics of the current 4.5 and 5th Gen fighters are far more advance than the older 4th gen fighters. Even the tactics were changing. The f35 pilots for example is doing less flying of the aircraft and more on gathering information and analysis. Unlike before generation before it that is heavily reliant on AWACS/ command and control to know whats happening in the battlefield. On the US doenst need to hire retired chinese or russian pilots to teach them.

[@swedhgemoni8092]

@@romell06 I am talking about the news that leaked in 2022 of them having paid off British pilots to brief them on subsystems of aircraft they flew, you cretin. If you think the shinajin actually hired guys who flew in the grandfather years of the Cold War or early GWOT, well, you are in the double-digit IQ slot.

[@cheetocatto01]

The main issue i see here is most chinese stuff is unproven. They have impressive data and numbers but that has never been put to the test. US been putting itself (or proxies) at war (for good or bad) since forever and are continuously testing their equipment on real combat scenarios. That an edge China does not have. It could be a paper tiger or a real tiger, no one can tell until they (china) or their equipment get into a real combat scenario.

[@minus21334]

and US stuff is proven? against poor state that didnt even have proper airfleet.

[@rinharter7758]

@@minus21334 at least it's proven to be reliable in the battlefield than not at all

[@cheetocatto01]

@@minus21334 if a plane can fly and comple the mission of attacking a target precisely and come back in one piece, it is a favourable point. Also, Israel also use US planes and they put that through a lot of use.

[@snipey14]

The entire Chinese military is unproven. They haven't seen any combat in decades.

[@pedroyaghdjian]

@cheetocato Agreed. The exception, I'd say, is the use of Chinese drones in Yemen. Even if tested against weaker opponents, being able to test your equipment in "live" conditions is a key advantage American products have enjoyed for decades.

[@grandmoffrex]

This comment section is starting to look like a quora thread

[@CockSmasher-xw4px]

💀

[@dog2737]

Undertaker comment

[@anguswaterhouse9255]

Almost as if they heard this video, the US just announced that more AESA radars are to be purchased for fourth gen f-16’s…

[@user-oj6ef5rt3p]

In summary, China has more and better large AWACS planforms, while the US has more smaller AWACSs. China has much more twin-engines, heavy payload fighter jets, which means PLA fighters can go further and carry more missiles. USAF still has much more aircrafts in total number. More stealth fighters. More strategic bombers etc. But the gap between these two super powers is nothing like the gap between the US and Iraq, or Iran, or Afghanistan. Conflict between them could be unimaginable. But as you said a war in real world is complicated. How to win a war heavily depends on geopolitical situations but not equipment (as if their gap is not huge). If one of them start a conflict and make the conflict near one’s border. Simply put, if the US start a war in SCS, I don’t think the US will have the chance to win as the theatre will be too close to China and to far away from the US. And China simply won’t attack pearl harbor like the Japanese did in WWII. So the best way to avoid conflict is that the US military keep a low key in Asia-Pacific region. I hope there will be no more wars. No more conflicts. Using money to explore the Universe instead of arm race will be better to humanity.

[@yuluoxianjun]

In a word.USA go away to East Ocean.

[@jakemocci3953]

The fighting men of America will not go to war for the new rainbow empire, and welfare mercenaries/liberals can’t fight like real patriots. You guys will win if you have the balls to take a stand.

[@chen-qq7eg]

中国空军的战略目的是国土防卫。用大型预警机以及大量的双引擎重型战斗机将战场设置在太平洋海域。而不是把战场放在中国领空。中国的军事力量迅速崛起不只是空军力量，而且包括了海军和陆军以及火箭军（导弹军种，独立于陆军海军空军之外）由于高速的经济增长，实际带动了军事实力的高速增加。中国的经济仍然是最优先的，军队要为经济发展而让步，军费只占据中国GDP的1.5%。而美国的军费占据GDP的3.3%。美国需要在全球范围内维持数量庞大的军事基地（800+）。以维持美国的全球军事力量投送霸权，维持，一个小时内可以攻击地球上任意地点的能力。所以美国的空军战斗机是需求非常大的。而中国并不是没有能力制造更多的战斗机，中国是没有巨大的需求。中国只需要维持国土防御。防御范围是亚洲地区。另一点，中国的制造能力是非常强大的。军事工厂只占据非常小的一部分，绝大多数都是民用工厂。在战时的生产能力和民众的动员能力，是美国无法媲美的。美国人经常嘲笑中国是独裁政权，但是你们忽略的是“中国独裁政权”的全国动员能力和紧急状态的生产能力是西方国家远远无法媲美的。比如，钢铁生产力，中国每年钢铁生产10亿吨，美国仅为8000万吨，中国的钢铁生产量超过其他所有国家的总和，占据世界总生产量的53%。而这仅仅是非战时的生产量，还有一点是中国掌握了全世界的稀土开采量和生产能力，如果没有足够的稀土，美国甚至无法制造出导弹和战机。如果中国军队需求更多的武器，那么很轻易就能制造出远远超越美国的武器数量。就如同上文所说，中国的军力发展要为经济让步，经济发展是最优先的，中国的目标是先在经济上超越美国，在2030年。经济超越美国，并且完成去美元化的目标，那美国将没有足够的钱去维持庞大数量的军队。如果美国失去经济霸权那么美国的军事霸权也就即将失去了，采购任何武器都需要花费巨大的金钱。中国政府把更多的预算优先用于发展经济，建设经济。而不是投入军事上。但是美国似乎是相反，美国政府更加的看重和发展军事力量，需要维持全球军力，而经济增长速度缓慢。经济才是军队最强大的战斗力，并不是武器数量。这并不是在讨论战争，实际上中国人不讨厌美国人，只是非常讨厌美国的政府。和平仍然是中美人民的心愿，影响中国和美国关系的是政客们，并不是人民。 回复

[@Joseph-mw2rl]

China is definitely improving faster than the US, but the US will still have superiority for a decade or two for now

[@gohibniugoh1668]

I am waiting for a big hurricaine to go through the South China sea and wipe out those Chinese sand bases.

[@ddarkon1223]

My thoughts With such a huge population its inevitable that China and India will eventually overtake the USA Well china is pretty close but india still has a century to go

[@earth9531]

it's not about absolute strength, its about the ability to apply force around the Pacific sea lanes, and Taiwan Straight. Remember that the US pretty much has to defend everywhere all at once. China only has to worry about their sea supply lines. China's overland trade is very limited, but also very secure, possibly with the exception of Pakistan.

[@elmohead]

​@@gohibniugoh1668 meanwhile hurricanes wreck USA every year lol but you do you

[@deriznohappehquite]

@@earth9531 Eh… in the event of a war, the US would most likely draw down its forces elsewhere to focus on the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean. China defending its sea based supply lines is, currently, completely impossible, and not looking easier as China antagonizes India, as the “Collective West” is poised for economic decoupling, and as Japan remilitarizes.

[@krizzle4087]

China stealth (J-21) is at least a generation behind F-22/F-35. Surely China will be 2+ generations behind with NGAD / B-21 Raider entering service soon. Further, China STILL has issues producing reliable domestic turbofans. Meanwhile, the U.S. will be introducing adaptive cycle turbofans and *likely* active flow control (no flight control surfaces required) into B-21 and NGAD projects for greater stealth and aerodynamic advantages in the near future.

[@Hury209]

lol, nobdy can surpass USAF, they are too long in the cutting edge technology game, they know everything about previous tech and future 15+ years tech minimum.

[@NinjaRunningWild]

J-20*

[@tetraxis3011]

@@Hury209 Ok sure bud

[@tetraxis3011]

B21 still has a long way to go before entering service.

[@vlhc4642]

J-21 is a lot more than 1 generation behind, J-21 doesn't exist

[@fernandogavaldon1456]

Interesting. One additional thing that comes to my mind is that US force is spread around the world over many and distant locations, this could have a huge effect in case of a regional conflict with China despite the tech edge

[@deebil8099]

They can all be moved. It's not like every single plane would attack China at the same time. They have missions with small groups of planes. The U.S. has 700 military bases all over the world and would be able to attack China from anywhere at anytime. Lets not forget their 12 nuclear aircraft carriers. The U.S. navy is the 2nd most powerful air force in the world, after the U.S. air force.

[@demun6065]

​@@deebil8099also, add in the American allies, many of whom surround china.

[@vlhc4642]

Funny isnt it, how US think itself a global navy but somehow also believe China with more ships just want to hang out in Asia

[@deebil8099]

@@demun6065 Yea, if China attacks Taiwan, the war is going to look like that meme pic of a tiny white girl on her knees with a bunch of big black dudes surrounding her.

[@jvbutalid8316]

@@demun6065 the most likely scenario would be that america amps up supplies of arms to the first island chain and the quad and then tiptoe around, pretending to actually try fighting china. Kinda like in ukraine

[@timkaine5098]

Chinas biggest problem if they went to war with the US would be how much more advanced us satellite surveillance and targeting technology is, Chinese admirals are more anxious about missile boats than carriers The biggest problem for the us would be Chinas saturation missle strategy which relies on an industrial base the US just doesn’t have, and theres not a lot of ways to deal with that without inflicting massive civilian casualties Either way it would be a grind fest with substantial losses on both sides, and not something the world wants or needs

[@Messerschmitt_BF_109G_10]

"Chinas biggest problem if they went to war with the US would be how much more advanced us satellite surveillance and targeting technology is" And not the fact that they would be facing the most powerful nation on the planet?, complete with 29 MORE allies?

[@jasonyu4380]

Chinese weather balloons are untouchable, unless your missile cost $400k a piece.

[@yojimbo3681]

I'm always amazed at Binkov's research on all things military

[@deadbutmoving]

The key difference is China has no military obligations outside of China. America has entangling alliances all over the world. America has to maintain 1,000 military bases around the planet trying to defend American interests EVERYWHERE. China has it's entire Air Force and Military focused on East Asia. The American military (as technologically advanced and as powerful as it is) is far too spread out. As the old saying goes, "He who defends everything, defends nothing".

[@javiergiribaldi3579]

America first

[@curtisstewart5460]

Why they in middle east. Pakistan

[@javiergiribaldi3579]

America numero 1 mi brother. Without America, we all fuc by the ccp !

[@user-hu2fr7eo1v]

@@javiergiribaldi3579 CCP don't have interesting for a piece of shit.

[@wkrapek]

I think these two militaries are just reflecting their different priorities. The Chinese need to look for stealthy American aircraft and aircraft carriers. We need to slide our aircraft into Chinese airspace undetected. But the big leaps are still happening in America. We got a new species of engines coming for the F-35, and our Sixth Generation fighter has almost certainly already flown. The only thing I worry about is hypersonic missiles, since we seem to be having problems there. But you know what? We flew a glide hypersonic system for decades. It was called the Space Shuttle. :-) [Edit] Also… if you’re going to compare Chinese and American stealth, you need to include the Super Hornet. It not Fifth Generation, but it does have stealth. Probably as good as anything China has.

[@Messerschmitt_BF_109G_10]

Did you know that the US NAVY 7th Fleet is supposed to travel through Chinese waters sometime in the future?

[@jdghgh]

I just love the message you guys include at the end of each video. Make peace, not war!

[@tetraxis3011]

Too bad the comment section doesn’t listen.

[@casbot71]

Remember, your comments will affect your social score…

[@yungunit8299]

Hail CCP.. do i get plus points now?

[@iwantmorenews557]

Including THIS comment

[@theandroid9431]

Ccp can smd

[@QuantumAscension1]

@@yungunit8299 only if you’re Han Chinese. If you’re any other ethnicity, than it’s -10,000 points for you. Please report to your nearest concentration ca- I mean… re-education center

[@weirdgaming4628]

If i have one them im 0 cuz im against every country

[@imyourdad2458]

Welcome to a channel where everyone can share their thoughts, opinions, expertise, suggestions,ideas or can oppose,refuse,accuse, counterattack others as if everyone has the same right to exercise their freedom of speech and liberty.

[@cyberywayne3128]

and that is an illusion.

[@haruyanto8085]

As always the comment section is a good example of "Freedom of speech", I'm glad the American forefather fought for this, so their descendants can use racial slurs and hurl insults at others on the internet.

[@allo-other]

"When strong, declare weakness so as to secure funds for R&D. When weak, steal, exaggerate, threaten, and stage military parades." ~ Sun Tzu revised for 21st century

[@alexlazar4738]

Haha, nice. But it suffers from the same problem as the original. Sometimes, the strong look really strong and the weak look really weak, regardless of what they do.

[@vlhc4642]

When weak, tell everyone what you're building 10 years before you build them When strong, send out Gordon Chang and Peter Zehan to tell everyone you'll collapse in 2 month.

[@allo-other]

@@alexlazar4738 True enough, but military parades and bragging about military stockpiles can fool adversaries until corrupt militaries are used for illegal invasions.

[@allo-other]

@Wiegraf I can't imagine how even a ztupid pro-P00 troll could believe that the US's geopolitical strength has fallen in comparison to the 2 P00stans. Of course, ztupidity knows no irrational bounds.

[@Messerschmitt_BF_109G_10]

@Wiegraf The whole reason we are so powerful is BECAUSE of our geology! that is our "not so secret weapon" that no other country in the world has.

[@nikto-ky4kx]

China graduates 100 engineers for every one the US has. US schools are teaching CRT and Tommy has two daddies. The US will not be able to keep up.

[@dm8579]

Exactly.

[@Ry_TSG]

"crt" "gay" you're gullible as hell aren't you

[@maximilianmeil2497]

me when still 20 years behind

[@user-gy7sk2df1p]

Don't worry, we Chinese people are peace loving

[@Comet-2011-W3-Lovejoy]

Indeed

[@seanwong8479]

J-8II are actually designed as long range missile trucks, PL-11s from the 90s to the 2000s and PL-12s in late 2000s and 2010s. Also I find the exclusion of strike planes odd, since for PLAAF and especially PLANF maritime strike is regarded are it's most important offensive roles in the 1990s and early 2000s, which is why JH-7 is such a highly regarded plane in that era. Interesting, JH-7 also experimented with an interceptor role similar to Tornado ADS in Europe, with 8 PL-11 and 2 PL-8s. However, it was never adopted due to importation of Su-27SK as J-11As.

[@maccara9698]

Isn't this the same guy who said how russia could take all of europe few years ago? 😂

[@omnadrener1]

Aren’t you the same guy that said Russia is losing in Ukraine 🤣

[@crimzonpegasus9714]

​@@omnadrener1 bruh they certainly aren't winning lmao

[@omnadrener1]

@@crimzonpegasus9714 hahah ok there severe case of copium 🤣

[@maccara9698]

@@omnadrener1 When are the t34's coming lmao

[@omnadrener1]

Yeah I know those t-34s and shovels are really giving the Challenger 2 and leopard tanks a run for their money

[@StephenMoreira]

Before watching: It is always easier to catch up, than to innovate ahead. So closing the gap makes sense to me, steal the tech, observe the technology, backwards engineer, etc etc.

[@prasanth2601]

Reverse engineering isn't a easy thing tho.

[@Messerschmitt_BF_109G_10]

And none of that will mean ANYTHING if you don't have the resources or the money to make it in the first place. That is exactly what sanctions do to your country. And for reference, that is also why Ruzzia is unable to produce any more tanks.

[@jackfoy3938]

Of course it took longer for US to develop this stuff they did most of it first, the Chinese just followed the blue print, it’s like that for everything.

[@fpsluna3785]

Cope

[@wickendiana8310]

Yeah most of china stuff doesnt seem to be so much advanced but rather in the same level that of the Us

[@Messerschmitt_BF_109G_10]

@@wickendiana8310 it's actually quite FAR behind.

[@vlhc4642]

US just cancelled Mach 5 ARRW after 3 failures while China already demoed Mach 25 global hypersonic orbital strike 2 years ago, why is US so slow to catch up?

[@wickendiana8310]

@@vlhc4642 source: trust me bro

[@onlyfacts3502]

Biggest problem I have with this video is that China does not have a 5th generation fighter. What they have is a step above 4th, but still below 5th. They have nothing that compares to the F-35 right now.

[@bussolini6307]

OnlyCope should be your name.

[@manofsteel8728]

Source trust me bro

[@tetraxis3011]

Fun fact: F35 isn’t 5 gen either. It can’t supercruise, its not all aspect stealth, and it has a high IR signature.

[@Abluemoon9112]

​@@tetraxis3011 ya you literally don't know what you are talking about. Lol super Cruise.

[@Messerschmitt_BF_109G_10]

@@tetraxis3011 You're a joke.

[@simonyip5978]

Anyone who still insists that China only copies other nations technology should know that the recent ASPI (Australian Strategic Policy Institute) report states that China is now the world leader in 37 of 44 strategic technologies that are essential for the development of future military and civilian and commercial applications. This report shows that the Chinese investment in STEM education and research and development (scientific/technological/engineering/mathematics) is now paying off. It's easy to talk about how China only steals and copies from other countries but the fact is that China is rapidly becoming dominant in many different sectors, topics, industries and technologies. The abilities of Chinese researchers and technicians, scientists, engineers, etc is common knowledge, for example the percentage of graduates and research and development staff in the best US/British/Australian/Canadian/European universities and institutes (Yale/Harvard/CalTech/MIT/Princeton/Cornell/Colombia/etc) that are from ethnic Chinese backgrounds is 20% plus (in the Ivy League colleges), and ethnic Chinese students do so well that they are being actively discriminated against, because they are so over represented and have had to start lawsuits to sue certain institutions, to prevent them from being discriminated against for doing so well. The average wage in China in the early 1980's was about $300/400 per year, compared to the average wage in the US in 1980 which was $12,500 per year. So the average American made 40 times more than the average Chinese citizen back in 1980. Or to put it another way, 1 American citizen made more than 40 Chinese citizens. Today, the average wage in China is $13,000 per year, compared to the average wage in the US of $58,000, the average wage in China has grown by 40 times and the average American wage has grown by 4 times in 40 years. In other words, the average American makes 4 times more than the average Chinese citizen. So in 40 years, the difference between the average American salary and the average Chinese salary has been reduced from about 40 times more to less than 4 times more. The typical American still earns more than the typical Chinese person, but it is rapidly getting less and less every year. My point is, many people think that the Chinese are decades behind in technology, and are earning a few dollars a day, and many people believe that China can only produce cheap and shoddy copies of more advanced countries. That might have been partly true a few decades ago but the fact is that China is now a world leader and a major economic, political, industrial, technological, cultural and military superpower. Another thing to remember is that China is improving and growing more powerful much faster than any western nation.

[@simonyip5978]

ASPI is the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, the report I'm referring to was published in March 2023. The 44 technologies are in the field of defence, space exploration, robotics, energy research and development, the environment and environmental protection and management, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, advanced materials, and other key technologies that are vital. The report states that in some fields of research, the 10 leading research institutes are all in China. "A key area in which China excells is defence and space related technologies. China's strides in nuclear capable hypersonic missiles reportedly took the US intelligence by surprise in August 2021". The situation is similar in the development of stealth aircraft, the US has the F-22/F-35 and a new stealth bomber. Only China has been able to finance, development, test, manufacture and deploy domestic designed and built stealth fighters (J-20/J-35) and the new H-20 stealth bomber. The Chinese PLA Airforce already operates over 200 x J-20, and the J-35 is being finalised for the PLA Navy's aircraft carriers and the H-20 strategic stealth bomber are nearing production stage. For a country that was still building versions of the Mig-21 in the early 2000's to be able to design/develop/test/manufacture 3 different types of stealth aircraft is an example of what is happening in China. The fact that established aviation industries in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Israel, Sweden, Russia, etc haven't been able to do the same as China and the US Aviation and aerospace industries is a sign of things to come in the near future.

[@localman9063]

You have to keep in mind that half the commenters on here are western plebs who get most of their info about China from memes. I love the effort you put in to explain, but it's likely going to fall on deaf ears.

[@Americaisgreat12]

To be honest I think we're developing things more advanced than we think just because we don't parad it around that doesn't mean we're losing our technological edge

[@mrknowitall8663]

Weapon systems have to be tested extensively. Where are these secret weapons systems being tested and show me where I can find them in the public record of the proposed legislation needed to procure them. I use to think this way to. We have this big secret weapon hidden somewhere. No we dont. Our best weapons are the F35, F22 and nukes.

[@uknwarrior7980]

US hypersonics keep failing in testing. AGM-183

[@deriznohappehquite]

@@uknwarrior7980 Because AGM-183 is an actual hypersonic cruise missile, not a ballistic missile like the DF-17. For context, the USSR and USA both had hypersonic ballistic missiles in the 70s.

[@uknwarrior7980]

@@deriznohappehquite Then why would US not just make a ballistic missile that performs the role Kinzhal and DF-17 do? lol.

[@dustycarrier4413]

It is pretty important to keep in mind the more secretive aspects of BOTH militaries. China likes to surprise the west with sudden breakthroughs, while the west likes to keep the latest and greatest behind wraps as long as possible.

[@michaelfarros8298]

I’m close to 70 years old. I remember the red scare from every decade until now. The Russians have proved inept and now we have a new red scare.

[@AndresAlfaroAtonal]

red scare? nothing to be feared but USA mediocritisy

[@brainletmong6302]

always better to assume a competent enemy than otherwise - that's how you stay on top

[@LawAbidingCitizen117]

Except this time it won't be a scare but much worse than that.

[@amacca2085]

Red scare 🤣 I’d be more worried about the mass shooting that go on daily in your home land…. If America didn’t get involved in everyone’s business there would probably be a lot less hostilities in the world I mean america prove themselves inept in looking after there own citizens there are places in a America that look worse than bakhmut 🤣👍

[@ilikebread357i44]

​@@AndresAlfaroAtonalthat isn't even a word lol

[@nosleN105]

This reminds me of the old days when they said the same about the soviets. Then the cold war ended and we found out that they were 15 years behind in many aspects. The Chinese military haven't demonstrated anything - no combat experience, no successful demonstration of Chinese technology in action. Even Iranians are more dangerous than the Chinese at this point - at least they demonstrated that they have some dangerous military hardware that even Israelis are taking into account

[@user-vn6je8zw9l]

Bombing a country without an air force and satellites is not practical experience

[@troll_zizipiano2kiev]

USAF IS OVERESTIMATED TOO.

[@jaypears291]

US biggest threat is their airforce which is getting more and more useless everyday with the amount of Ads being used and developed

[@MrRuoxi]

The biggest difference is China has 1.4B people, and a huge number of Engineer graduates. Its economy reached 2/3 of U.S. in dolars and exceed U.S. in PPP. Actually before the Korean war, Chinese has demonstrated nothing to U.S., Macarthur said they would have Christmas in home land, but a lot of them are buried in cold Korean peninsula. Same goes for Vietnam war, the only difference is China did not go by itself this time, but acted as a support line force.

[@publicenemy1238]

you poor unintelligent American 🤣

[@Macto5]

The big focus on disparity in numbers between the AWACS aircraft is misleading. US' advantage in sensor fusion (particularly with 5th gen aircraft) is a force multiplier that increases the effectiveness of each AWACS aircraft compared to their Chinese equivalents. The video also only compares stated numbers of aircraft and capabilities which ignores the extensive US advantage in combat experience, integration and battle proven systems. Until China engages in a large-scale conflict, it's anyone's guess how effective their military is but it's safe to assume this dry analysis of numbers leads to a very optimistic conclusion for China.

[@andersonanderson1525]

China have surpassed US in science and technology, nature index which is indicator of elite science publication, china have surpassed US 19000 vs 17000, in scopus engineering the gaps is far wider might be 2-3 times higher in 1-10% citation, u can check cwts leiden as well

[@andrewmakenzi]

that stuff does not matter as much as you think, e.g fighting terrorists, there are ways to combat all the advantages of a more advanced army e.g you can have more men, outproduce cheaper munitions eg if they are producing HIMARS, for each(they are expensive) produce 5000 less expensive munitions and just trade with them, out manufacture guns, tanks, sell their debt. A war btn china and the USA like any other war, would be a 5yr plus war, so if your citizens are used to harder times, if you have more control of the media, if you can manufacture more munitions, if you have more men, there are so many advantages.the us would never even battle china directly, can you imagine losing 1m service men then the army has to recruit again, this is nothing to china. they can mobilise your entire population

[@nic7048]

i dont agree too about the Australian wedgetail EWACS plane being kind of old tech. That is the best EWAC in the world with unclassified 700km radar ranges. what is he claiming that China has a 1000 plus km range radar in there plane is laughable. Even the Saab Ewacs plane a value for money but cheap less capable plane for poorer countries has a radar with 350-400km or so , i dont think China would have better sensors and radar tech then Saab.

[@voidtempering8700]

Most 4.5 gen aircraft have sensor fusion capabilities, not as good as the F-35, but it is relatively old tech.

[@blurglide]

The fully laden F-16 at 14:40 has terrible wingtip flutter!

[@1000kennedydk]

Reads like a release from the USAF public affairs department before the budget hearings.

[@user-vn6je8zw9l]

Bombing a country without air force and satellites is not actual combat experience, that is called target training

[@hugoa1978]

tyranny!

[@pascualfernandez3533]

Beautifully said!!😂

[@RandomGuy9]

I think the sources are the same that let us think the Russian army is almost on the level of the US.

[@zhijinchen268]

Nobody think so. On the other hand, if US army go into such war, it will not fare much better than Russia. Ukraine is poor, but don't forget it is still a big industrialized country. Its capability in war is much stronger than Iraq.

[@indiasuperclean6969]

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[@ismailnyeyusof3520]

Whether or not China will close the technological gap with the US is less important than the question of how to defuse the tension between these two countries. China is a growing force that sees history on its side that is being constraint by the United States, they are determined to take their place in the world’s first row of global powers, and they are fully conscious of the fact they are running short of time. Their use of authoritarian methods which alarm the Americans so much is their most useful way to progress as fast as they have so it’s back to the first question posed here, how to defuse the tension? The whole world, especially my world in the shadow of China here in Malaysia, waits breathlessly!

[@petersinclair3997]

Autocracies can be good at completing tight, repetitive tasks. Democracies are better at handling the atypical. Autocracy can impede horizontal ultraism in teams, stifling innovation. Bosses always being right, might work in a factory, but not in a war.

[@archersfriend5900]

Great question.

[@andrewsmall6834]

Everyone said the same about Russia and look how that's going for them.

[@SuddenPaintball]

Except consider that China's economy is $17 trillion in GDP, while Russias is $1.5 trillion. China is a much more formidable force.

[@03056932]

it's going fine unless you swallow corporatw narratives who's aim it is to give you hope of a ukranian victory and keep you supporting your tax dollars be siphoned off to fraud and hurting a foreign power who does not wish to bend to the nation history shows to murder for it's own elites interests - the United States. happy to video debate you.

[@andrewsmall6834]

@@SuddenPaintball a force that they can't afford to equip or train.

[@vlhc4642]

Considering NATO lost to the Taliban and are now running out of shells just fighting a proxy war against Russia, do you really think you're in any position to compare yourself to a country with more industrial output than NATO + Russia combined times 2? I mean, just a small fraction of sales from a single Chinese consumer drone company is carrying the war for both Russia and NATO... fun fact, the PLA doesn't drop grenades DJI Mavics, PLA have so many drones they use the Mavic as the grenade.

[@SuddenPaintball]

@@andrewsmall6834 China's GDP is within a hair of the US, and it's growing much faster. Don't delude yourself into thinking they are a poor country by any means. They have over 20x the wealth of the Russians, and if they wanted to could some day compete with the US in military might.

[@NoDoubt9910]

Binkovs last words were very crucial. "War is not shaped by technology alone...in certain parts of thr world, it's also based on politics and geography..." Taiwan maybe. Do you really think US will be able to dedicate 100% or say 50% to fight in the backyard of China and prevail. Nobody knows. I'm no expert either, but all empires fail eventually historically, the Romans, Genghis Khan, Ottoman, the Brits...

[@razal-ghul1105]

It's not that the USAF has lost their edge. Priorities (set by the few at the top, not the soldiers or people) have been altered for making war a business and the main priority in getting rich. If the states was ever threatened with war or got brought into a world war I'm sure you'll see the innovative minds invested into again

[@armamentarmedarm1699]

That has never not been the case

[@nexpro6118]

This video is so misleading because the video is taking an account all types of aircraft and the US military has thousands of more aircraft than anybody else and has thousands of air refueling tankers and transport aircraft and ground attack aircraft and all of those aircrafts do not need AESA radars and most of the types of aircraft I just said, don't even have track and fire radars on em lol. Videos is sssoooo misleading. Also, US military has hundreds of AWACS aircraft that has zero need for AESA radar lol. Again, US has 13k aircraft....China has less than 4k aircraft....so duh....the percentage wise of AESA radar count would make it seem like, China has and uses more AESA radar aircraft...jesus....video is so misleading....also....don't forget that China uses 1980s Russian engines for their(china) newest fighter lol 😂😂😂😂 China can't even manufacture its own powerful and reliable engines...

[@Zack-mp6ys]

In the Ukraine battlefiled, it seems that Dji drones are the weapons that enjoy highly cost efficiency.

[@wolfsigma]

America is falling behind on air tankers too. But if the war actually went hot I suspect America could close the gap with insane speed. We just have such a longer history and experience at building military assets.

[@mrknowitall8663]

Build it with what money? You see you need to pay people to do work. We use to make all of our money from being the world reserve currency and the petrodollar. That ends soon when Russia and China along with BRICS implement their own swift system. Saudi Arabia is already taking the YMB for oil transactions. America is broke AF! All those millionaires and billionaires. lol. Monopoly Money.

[@LawAbidingCitizen117]

That was in the past. Now Americans are kept busy with LBGT agendas.

[@Big_Red_Dork]

@@mrknowitall8663 lmao, just lmao. The US and it's allies have the most productive workforces on the planet, they have some of the richest supplies of natural resources, and have an extensive global network to protect the shipping lanes and areas where they need the rest. BRICS is certainly capable of being a very powerful influencer in a so-called multi-polar world that China envisions, but to disregard the West's technological, industrial, military, educational, and economic strength over BRICS doesn't even make sense even if you think BRICS is desirable over the West. The West in a full-on WWII style level of commitment to wartime production would absolutely dominate over the BRICS bloc. Of course, that means nuclear exchange would be next, which is why these foolish conflicts are absolutely asinine and insane, and must never be allowed to come to fruition. Nuclear Armageddon is a losing game for every player, even the one's that aren't involved in a direct conflict. I'll take the UN/US's unipolar world over the BRICS vision of a fractured multi-polar world any day of the week

[@foilhat1138]

@@Big_Red_Dork Yes also BRICS is just some walstreet bro's investment strategy, none of those countries give a rats ass about eachother.

[@Finkaisar]

@@Big_Red_Dork Also brics shouldnt even be considered much. For example, India and china hate eachother so their cooperation isnt a thing when the whole thing is dominated by china and other nations are very backwards in technology

[@waltblai3755]

Love this channel no bias or propaganda just facts Appreciate it thanks ✌️

[@dancingcow8640]

I overdosed on copium reading these comments

[@gmrobert6262]

You okay now?

[@leonana11]

What exact "war" did the US fight, other than bombing peasants in desert after WW2? 😂

[@NeostormXLMAX]

They dropped more than a million bombs in Laos as well

[@richardholsapple5063]

Pretty sure in 03 Iraq was considered widely a top 10 army that was decimated in a matter of days 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@richardholsapple5063]

@@uekvowzkaebbzuvrgipqxhemmwbhe read a book.

[@uekvowzkaebbzuvrgipqxhemmwbhe]

@@richardholsapple5063 there is still hundreds of American soldiers rotting in Afghanistan to this day 😂. Their life was worthless they died for nothing meanwhile taliban heroes died to free their county and they succeeded

[@richardholsapple5063]

@@uekvowzkaebbzuvrgipqxhemmwbhe pot calling the kettle black speaking of worthlessness. So what’s it like being a mouth breather who is of no significance?

[@Braindamagedcat]

binkov is a pro at provoking a big war in the comment section war its awesome

[@bigballzmcdrawz2921]

War....war, never changes.

[@indiasuperclean6969]

WOW VERY DANGEROUS SIR! !! 😠 😠BUT THIS WHY IM SO LUCKY LIVE IN SUPER INDIA THE CLEANEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD 🇮🇳🤗 , WE NEVER SCAM! WE GIVE RESPECT TO ALL WOMEN THEY CAN WALK SAFELY ALONE AT NIGHT AND WE HAVE CLEAN FOOD AND TOILET EVERYWHERE 🇮🇳🤗🚽, I KNOW MANY POOR PEOPLE JEALOUS WITH SUPER RICH INDIA 🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳

[@ziqiangyuan234]

Many Chinese civilian products that can be purchased online now use AESA radars, such as DJI's T60. But in the comments, a bunch of anti-China bots try to convince others that the Chinese military does not have the this technology🤣

[@nickcruz8748]

Looks like the only thing missing to cement the Fallout timeline at this point are nuclear-powered light vehicles, and a 1950's pervasive vibe.

[@zhangjason7477]

In Ukraine, nearly all drones are made in China

[@user-ed6mg5ul3r]

Next time if they fight together with chairs or throwing nike shoes, you can blame vietnam then...

[@chaptermastercatosicarius6968]

Oh boy can't wait to see the comments

[@gio957]

Even with the recent Chinese advancement, The US air force is still ahead by a considerable margin. Heck China isn't even second best.

[@VeteranExpat]

But, we have to balance globally. They have an advantage of consolidated terrain.

[@vlhc4642]

You might want to look up the average age of USAF jets and why they want to scrap 1,000 planes in 5 years.

[@VeteranExpat]

@@vlhc4642 our enemies are going to help us scrap many of those all too soon and we're going to be happy we have a bone yard to pull even older planes from.

[@vlhc4642]

@@VeteranExpat The problem isn't scraping those planes, the problem is scraping your pilots at the same time if you go against China with them.

[@simonwoess5679]

Comments of Trolls of all kind and nationality comming in in 3... 2... 1..

[@casbot71]

If Binkov could have included Muslims along with Russians in this scenario … then the comments section would need military intervention itself … And it's always fun when it's a scenario where there's been real world ethnic national conflict.

[@AlreadyTakenTag]

I'm all for it. Ultra nationalistic trolls are the best entertainment you can have. Just watch quietly as a few people tear their hair out over an idiotic comment war in the comment section of some random video.

[@simonwoess5679]

@@AlreadyTakenTag Yea the best ones are the one that still think Russia is undefeateble and could even challenge the us if they only would start send in their "best" stuff

[@piotrwolski8429]

I cooperate with watch rapairman. Around 2 years ago he bought two china made machines for checking and fixing watches. They had exact tech spec and functionality (at least on paper) as best swiss machines while beeing cheaper... Now they are kept in storage to remind him never to buy this stuff again.

[@scottjuhnke6825]

Thank you!

[@ronmaximilian6953]

The US had a replacement for the E-3 AWACS, the aew.vsriant of the E-10 MC2A, which was to use a newer and larger variant of the Wedgetail's Multi-role Electronically Scanned Array (MESA) . All three variants of the E-10 MC2A were canceled in 2007.. The US sat on our size 50 rear end for the next 15 years before deciding to get the now two decade old E-7A Wedgetail, which have been designed by Australia back in the 1990s. If we are lucky, the US Navy will also get more than a handful of NC-37B (Gulfstream 550 business jobs modified to carry the Israeli EL/W-2085 radar arrays.)

[@xaina222]

US spreading its forces world wide vs China concentrated in one place is already a bad sign of a "defeat in detail"

[@armamentarmedarm1699]

Makes boasts about US logistics a joke.

[@tankerboy12464]

Remember when Russia was supposed to be a big bad bear? They ended up being just a baby bear. Until I see the chinese military in use, I will remain sceptical. Quality over quantity.

[@RezzpektMVP]

Absolutely. Just commented that

[@uknwarrior7980]

"I will remain spectacle" Most literate American

[@tankerboy12464]

@@uknwarrior7980 haha I just realized I put that 🤣 I'm human and make mistakes sorry.

[@dm1i]

Usually Russia is shown like big bad bear in context of nuclear ballistic missiles. Those didn't gone anywhere. That's just western media are focused on telling US citizens that they should spend a little more money on Ukraine and soon it would win. So Russia should look weak in CNN news now.

[@oldkid8811]

@@dm1i ya know having shit tons of nukes doesn't an awesome power make. Ask France. lol. Really man i don't think Putin would survive the coup that would occur after he orders Armageddon.

[@sashasullivan4875]

Yes ofcourse. Didnt this channel say similar things when comparing the USA with Russia?

[@woahhbro2906]

Having advanced tech means nothing when we're fat, spoiled, and stupid. We are weak and ignorant. Until we fix those issues, there's no use even worrying about tech.

[@Macto5]

That might be somewhat true of American society but it absolutely does not apply to their military. America's investment in funds, R&D, manpower, training and integration make its military anything but fat and spoiled. Even if a good chunk of its population is fat, stupid and brainwashed by Fox news, America's military is the most powerful in human history by a huge margin. China is rising but still a long way off beating the US in a conventional war. China has no experience in modern war and its systems are unproven.

[@woahhbro2906]

@@RAL0981 It's true. We're possibly the worst people on this planet. The only reason we're surviving is because we managed to make a ton of money since WW2. The moment we run out of money, the world will turn on us and/or we'll eat ourselves out of pure ignorance. It's any wonder how we're still breathing because we're so fat and stupid, we should be dead. Don't get wrong, I'm patriotic and love my country, but I've lost all hope.

[@harrymaiolo6719]

Having a state of the art weapons system is one thing, but being able to deploy it and support it in a combat zone is another. What seperated the US military from others isn’t really it’s weapons tech, but rather it’s exceptional logistics system. The US has proven its abilty to deploy troops and weapons systems anywhere in the world and support those troops and systems indefinetly. The US Navy has conducted carrier operations all over the world, every single day, 24 hours a day since 1940. The gap in experience, training and logistic capabilities is quite large and possibly insurmountable.

[@telmeeeh]

What can weaken the US is its "inside" fight not outside.

[@blackmamba9950]

This is absolutely true especially for Navy

[@haochengzhai7156]

Those countries don't have industry, son.

[@KrazeDiamond]

You watch too many movies. The US + NATO can't even keep up with supplying munitions to Ukraine. The US has never faced a Superpower, especially a Manufacturing Powerhouse like China. The US has 850 military bases around the world, might be enough to deploy troops on a small country with little to no defense, but not China. You ain't got the slightest clue as to how the real world works. Go back to your Hollywood horseshit kid, this stuff is outta your league.

[@heads49]

​@@KrazeDiamond we're watching too many movies? You speak like you must have some insider information on the workings of the US Military, which is definitely not the case. China doesn't have half the capability the US has, ots no contest in logistics capability nor theater operation. You want to see what happens when the US takes its gloves off, look no further than the gulf War and see how quickly the US dismantled the 4th largest army in the world with 147 killed compared to 20k-50k. Then there's Ukraine, oh boy more artillery talk. I've been hearing the pro rus side say Ukraine will run out of shells in weeks for almost 8 months now. Hasn't happened, we're pulling shells from global supply while Russia is stuck with themselves, Iran, or N.korea. cope harder commie.

[@boejiden7093]

Man so many salty fools in this comments section. It’s a video guys relax. And yes China has been closing the tech gap for a while now. The US was involved in a 20 year long insurgency where air superiority wasn’t the biggest concern. Our military had focused on counter insurgency while China had 20 years to play catch up.

[@keithbevins6688]

This is all very entertaining. There are weaknesses in the details.

[@sunatarosuna1560]

No need fight the US military, fight the USD and then US not that tough anymore, and US wiil not dare to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries.😅😊😂

[@justincampbell2168]

Then stop bitchin and whining when we don't interfere.

[@A22A8]

Wait and see :)

[@chargedx5768]

​@@justincampbell2168 no one whines when your dumb ass county doesn't invade them for not being gays

[@Rob-rr4yp]

Wow, so many people beating their chest in the comments. Binkov said they are catching up, not that they are equal already. To underestimate a threat is to fail to create an adequate response.

[@alexlazar4738]

China does not have to be equal to win since the fight be around China's coast not the US coast. So, China will be able to bring 100% of their planes while Us can do hardly more than 60%. Also, almost all US planes will have to be refueled to reach China( Taiwan) so you can have only a very limited number in the combat zone at any time so China will have at least 3 to 1 advantage. Not to mention that China does not have to fight those planes, just attack the tankers and all enemy planes will dive into sea when they run out fuel.

[@Cars-N-Jets]

@@alexlazar4738 B1s are stationed in Guam and lots of Allies surround China with F35s that china can only track but not target. But hey at the same time China copies because they don't have the production capacity to build stealth fighters.

[@vlhc4642]

Its funny because Binkov is also behind on his China data, and Americans can't even handle that. What can you say, Americans are addicted to copium, might be a bad thing if you want to win, but a great thing if you want to live with losing.

[@laisphinto6372]

china just has to stop trade with the west and pressure indirectly america by all other western countries to stop fighting poor china

[@alykkw]

J-7 was not retired. They have been converted into remote control fighters. Siege of the taiwan straits last year was done by remote control J-7s.

[@SaceedAbul]

This comment section literally is to stupid for this video. It’s kinda sad. Education needs to be funded more in the US

[@jacobbrassard2776]

Don’t begrudge the Chinese there money they work hard for it

[@type1exterminator471]

Don’t underestimate china, but I do have a good feeling that their whole military is using the principle of looking strong when you are weak.

[@arbelico2]

I have long wondered if reviving the F/A-22B program to have a 5th gen ++ fighter would allow the US and its allies : Australia , Canada , South Korea , Taiwan , Poland , Norway , Finland , Sweden .... to have a highly capable aircraft at a lower cost than operating a 6th gen .... not to mention the possibility of a naval version for the US NAVY ...

[@petersinclair3997]

Australia is putting AUD 386 Billion working with the UK and US on submarines into the 2040s. AUKUS is likely to be Weapons Central; however, traditional allies can make valuable contributions too.

[@rehanansari3581]

Very Good

[@GeneralGayJay]

The US military is 10-15 years ahead. We don’t know what secret high tech weapons they have right now.

[@deriznohappehquite]

China is only just now managing to copy stealth technology, which the US introduced in the 1970s. The gap is definitely closing, but not as quickly as China’s population pyramid is inverting 😳

[@luluapple1067]

@@deriznohappehquite just now? J20 first flew 12 years ago

[@Dave-hu5hr]

Yeah.. Plus they also have Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum in reserve should the Chinese become a bit difficult to handle..

[@nailil5722]

for anyone new here, my man has been way more wrong than right in the past so take all of this with a grain of salt

[@dkrobertson9541]

Thank outsourcing for this.....

[@jordan-ho7gt]

- China still imports Russian engines as they never managed to make a decent turbofan. - They still rely on retired Western pilots to train their pilots as they lack combat experience. - Russia cannot have air sovereignty against ukraine that operates soviet fighters with garmin guidance. Imagine Ngad against this lol

[@Mayabichi]

Yeah, the new Beijing axis is looking like a total failure

[@Kevin-tv9rv]

China can make their own engines now dude…. This isn’t news

[@goodlife6277]

​@@Kevin-tv9rv These engines have 20 times less durability than those of Russian origin, but that will be solved with the help of the Russians... as always.

[@Kevin-tv9rv]

@@goodlife6277 Russian engines are notoriously known to require high level maintenance which made the Chinese heavily dependent on the Russians. This is remedied. The Chinese have been making their own and they’re more reliable and need less maintenance. You’re selling the Russians too high, they’re Fkn shit at engines

[@victorye7150]

Cop

[@networkgeekstuff9090]

Well, as someone from from old eastern block during cold war I can tell you that catching-up is much easier then trying to keep-up. I am very much sure China can catch-up, be it by espionage or simply by participating in global economy ... but overtake and lead in science and tech is something else ... and given how many PhD students I have personally sean running away from there to do start-ups in the west, I am skeptical that this technological trend projection can actually overtake on some point or it will be a logarithmic one always chasing.

[@timothy1949]

yea, catch up, its sort of funny to see that the US is catching up to china on AEACS, A2A missiles and hypersonic missiles technology. at least they are not dreaming and trying to catch up, they literally just reported another failed hypersonic missile test 23 hours ago, god knows how many years they are behind. and if you havn't heard, 3 US banks just went to fucking ZERO and I doubt that US military funding is going to take a hit to save the fucking economy. but thankyou for your cold war experience and complacency, the pentagon needed it

[@nathanielalaburgDelhi]

Stop you are going to make the communism come out the bots eyes with all this common sense!

[@yiyangqin4527]

based on the current trend and ASPI new tech comparison report between China and US China is already overtaken at some critical cutting edge technology and all other are rapid closing gap I am confident to say the technological trend may really overtake at some time and me personally study in US and Canada for years won't stay here, just like all friends of mine study in here, we are moving back asap after graduation

[@defintity_9951]

@@yiyangqin4527 The problem with those estimates is that they primarily use patents as a main determinant of tech power. However it doesn’t necessarily give any regard to the quality or originality of the patents.

[@yiyangqin4527]

@@defintity_9951 I check the comparison of the ASPI very clearly throughout both the tech track website and the report itself the report primarily use weighted citation of public research to calculate two quality metrics-one is H index and the other one is top 10% most high cited H-index is simply a performance metrics used to analysis the impact of this output from citation numbers, to measure its quality and performance the research actually demonstrates data for both quality and quantity outcomes, compare both high-volume output and some of the most widely-used, high-performed (generally high-quality) reports. so personally, I don't see that as an issue

[@MikoyanGurevichMiG21]

Binkov comments not be a cesspool of lost braincells challenge(Impossible)(epic fail)

[@Dionach]

Are you with us, or are you with the balloon? 🫡🇺🇸

[@UD2]

This is a fair and balanced quantitative assessment. Thank you. All the bots in this section though.

[@WanderlustZero]

Anyone remember when Binkov used to be all 'Who would win: Burkina Faso or San Marino?'

[@Pand0rasAct0r_]

how can you say this when the us had 5th gen decades ago and now china has it. while the us is already working towards 6th gen and china is not. Much like the us has companies like asml supporting its technological advantage. china is no where close to such chip manufacturing capabilitites. easily by years off.

[@foilhat1138]

China's 5th gen is more like 4.5 gen at best.

[@NoMercyNoMalice]

USAF proved its capabilities in many operations. China is strong only on paper and I doubt if this is a real deal regarding tech development.

[@phenotypeb6843]

Many operations against who, they've never faced anything close to a peer in many decades. Does beating up on 10 year olds show you've proved yourself in combat?

[@KennyNGA]

yeah against talibans isis and other rebels thats like testing the capabilities of a car with a race against a horse

[@NoMercyNoMalice]

@@KennyNGA 中國巨魔

[@NoMercyNoMalice]

@@phenotypeb6843 中國巨魔

[@missk1697]

cope, polakoid. Typical comment from someone in US vassal country.

[@baronc252]

I keep telling people to not sleep on China. They're playing the catch up game right now. But they've closed the gap quicker than most would like to admit. Only thing that we have over them is the experience using the "fancy" tech. Which is something that can also be gained pretty quick. Last time we fought them was Korea. They were the only ones to truly keep us at bay while North Korea was on life support.

[@nexpro6118]

This video is so misleading because the video is taking an account all types of aircraft and the US military has thousands of more aircraft than anybody else and has thousands of air refueling tankers and transport aircraft and ground attack aircraft and all of those aircrafts do not need AESA radars and most of the types of aircraft I just said, don't even have track and fire radars on em lol. Videos is sssoooo misleading. Also, US military has hundreds of AWACS aircraft that has zero need for AESA radar lol. Again, US has 13k aircraft....China has less than 4k aircraft....so duh....the percentage wise of AESA radar count would make it seem like, China has and uses more AESA radar aircraft...jesus....video is so misleading....also....don't forget that China uses 1980s Russian engines for their(china) newest fighter lol 😂😂😂😂 China can't even manufacture its own powerful and reliable engines... also, you can have the best equipment and technology in the world but if the training is so far and if the country's military has no actual more experience than it honestly means nothing. There isn't a single Chinese military member including officers that actually have more time experience. And when it comes to the Chinese pilots, they're training is only half the time of the US training and it's not even good training when they are doing training. Also, Logistics is what wins wars. Amateurs study strategy professionals study logistics. The Chinese Logistics Department of their military is about the same size as the Russians and we all see how that's going for Russia. Superior training and Logistics will always be out equipment and Technology

[@user-nz3dw5lh4v]

On the bright side, wars are far less likely to occur in a world where differences in capabilities are small than they are when differences are large.

[@karenthomson9749]

No buddy... you have the USA knowing they are in decline making them more likely to start a war sooner while they can win, rather than wait.... eg japan ww2, hitler Barbarossa etc

[@dzcav3]

Actually it's the opposite of what you stated. If a challenger thinks it has a chance of winning, it is MORE likely to make a challenge than if it thinks the situation is hopeless.

[@user-nz3dw5lh4v]

​@@dzcav3 The widely anticipated war between the United States and the Soviet Union did not materialize. but Iraq and Ukraine did not have the same luck. I believe the Cold War just was 'cold' War for a reason.

[@GloryOfMasculinity]

bro usa fanboys are pissed asf at the comments, this guy isnt biased.

[@sillysad3198]

it is never sad to be a fanboy of the world champion

[@Raz82000]

​@@sillysad3198 world champion at pride parade. 😂

[@sillysad3198]

​@@Raz82000 i feel your pain, Tovarich...

[@PrimericanIdol]

To these Amerifags, he's only not biased when he makes negative remarks about Russia. The Gulf war was already 32 years ago. Let it go. You still can't get over that high you got by effortlessly steamrolling an already weak and incompetent rival.

[@user-lj8pd7nh7c]

The greatest obstacle to survival is not weakness and ignorance, but arrogance

[@justincampbell2168]

and Democrats