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Actually I've heard that FedEx has the second largest plane fleet in the world.

suddenly everyone in the comment section becomes 5 star generals.

China is looking at Russia and going "you mean to tell me all those hours we spent reverse engineering your planes were a waste of our time?"

Awesome vid, thanks Binkov

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For me, the calculus on this boils down to training flight hours and combat experience. Building a large air force doesn't make you a great military threat in the air any more than buying a really nice piano makes you a world-class musician.

Great video!

Fantastic channel! I come here because I don't always have time to read aviation books anymore, not like in HighSchool where I had tons of spare time and didn't really know it. I collect aviation art books. My 3 favorite aviation themed art books are - The Aviation Art of Lou Drendel by Lou Drendel - Icon by Frank Frazetta - Great Fighter Jets of the Galaxy 1 by Tim Gibson

"This is Les Grossman who is this?" "This is FLAMING. DRAGON."

USAF has more to worry about from US bureaucrats and its own ineptitude than it does any foreign power.

Chinese escalators have more confirmed kills than their jet fighters

It’s been a year now and. Here is an example of chinese manufacturing at its finest, the numbers of J-20s got to squadron level and they also made new YY-20 and KJ-600

What would be interesting is an analysis made by someone from the past. For example, analyzing the strengths of each side in 1914 or 1940, before the fighting began.

Why are there always Indian military „experts“ in the comment sections of every binkov video even if it has nothing to do with India?? Like I don’t have anything against Indians but I’m just saying🤷🏻‍♂️

This video is surprisingly neutral. Info available from public sources are quite carefully gathered and presented. There is a tiny amount of direct comparison with the US but that wasn't the main part of the video at all. The comment section on the other hand is just hilarious.

Great, thanks!

One obvious but sometimes overlooked factor that perhaps ought to be noted when comparing the numbers is that America has only a fraction of her naval and air assets deployed in East Asia at any given time, while China can draw upon nearly her entire military might in the opening stages of a conflict. Thus, America would be greatly outnumbered for some time in any clash with China (occurring within the first island chain) until reinforcements can arrive. Were Japan or South Korea to actively join in, this imbalance would be majorly offset, of course.

From what I can see, the Chinese Air force is most likely relegating a lot of the anti-ground role to drones. From the vast array of the Caihong (CH) family of propeller drones to the ultra-stealthy flying wing attack drone of the GJ-11. In terms of drone variety China has the Americans beat, China even has Early Warning radar drone, the Divine Eagle, which forms part of a distributed AWACS system. Where the Early warning radar drone can fly much longer and farther than manned AWACS. Which is pretty peculiar how slow the US is advancing in different mission sets for drone warfare. A lot of good designs gets canned, it shows a general dismissive attitude towards drone technology. Something the US air force will regret.

Korean War Aces: US=40 China, Russia, N. Korea= 76 Western claim of 10:1 kill ratio is utter nonsense and and as always underestimate the enemy's kill numbers.

When US and its allies went to war against China, this time, it will be like the continuation of Korea War. The war in Korea is unfinished war. No one won the war. It was a stale mate. Chinese army fought the Allies under US Army command without air force to cover their Army from the sky, without navy to stop the Allies from landing in Korean soil. The Chinese Army was no match in all fronts against the US and its allies. The Chinese don't have military industrial base to manufactured weapons at that time. Most of their weapons were remnants of the weapons surrendered by Japanese army at the end of WW2. Some were loan by Russia to China. Despite all the odds, the Chinese army were able to stale mate the war and prevented America from occupying North Korea. I don't know what would be the outcome this time when US and its Allies once again against the Chinese Army which is different from the Chinese Army during Korea War. Maybe those US Allies who joined the US army in the Korea War should rejoin with their US master to resume the unfinished war. No turning back.

It's very impressive to see a huge progress that chinese military made in the last 20 years. Honestly a very few of us from the West expected that to happen.

The numbers for AEW&C planes are also outdated, according to latest estimates China now has 36+ KJ-500, 13+ KJ-200, and 4 KJ-2000 in service. And in recent years they've also been adding up their ASW plane fleet, with around 50+ KQ-200 in service.

While impressive on paper, numbers doesn't equal quality. Since most of their air fleet is either out of date or untested we will not know how well these will perform outside of a real war. Specs on a plane can always be to impress people. But show me how it works in a joint arms environment. How does it fair during stress test? How much a beating does it take? Maintenance? Refuel/Reloading time. Ability to repair and upgrade. The number of people you need to support a single airplane? Where can it land/take off from? How does it fare with different weapon systems?

When I was in China Back in 2017 there were routine jet flybys, sometimes multiple times a day but normally only once.

I honestly dont understand why the people who is leaving salty pathetic comments are still subscribed to the channel. its like you want the truth but you can't handle the truth so ima be salty here to gain some self esteem 😭😭

"Flaming Dragon or a baby Tiger?" i would be more worried about the baby tiger, they will one day grow up to become a threat. a flaming dragon you take to a gay bar and it will be too distracted to ever bother you ever again.

I love Binkov’s

Interesting analysis. Where do you get your information from?

China is rapidly closing the technological gap it had with West & Russia. I just can't understand why Russia sold a dozen of their best fighters (4 gen Su-35?) to be immediately reverse-engineered.

And I believe the Chinese military does use satellite-guided precision strike weapons, if they are offering those in the export market then there's no way they wouldn't use those domestically. They already have the Beidou system which is similar to GPS. The reason why we don't really see them using those in their trainings is likely because those're rather expensive and are mostly reserved for actual conflicts rather than training.

In a mayor conflict it will not be so important who has the most planes, but who can build the most planes. Acces to recources will be critical, and so naval power will play a huge role.

China's air force in its current form is sufficient to defend against threats over its own airspace, perhaps even a few hundred kilometers from its shores. However, it lacks offensive capability and experience in large scale joint operations. This will remain so for at least another decade. With that said, I fully expect PLAAF capabilities to significantly enhance in the coming decade. By 2035, it may even be able to go toe to toe with US and its allies in the Western Pacific theatre.

China's military ambition is to secure the third island chain to protect its huge reliance on global supply lines. It's surrounded by powerful potential enemies (India, Japan). It's about regional dominance only. It has an aging population and 1.4 billion people to feed, most of its energy and food come through shipping routes. The USA can sit like it always did across the world and simply take advantage of it's perfect geographical location. It doesn't rely on world trade to make it's money and feed it's people. It's self sufficient with no enemies close by. China climbed to the position it's in through none of its own doing, only by the global scenario created by the USA's huge navy maintaining world peace/trade. The USA will simply sit back and let China deal with all the problems now and bankrupt itself in doing so. Hence leaving Afghanistan, it's China's problem now.

Very objective analysis. PLA has at least four squadrons of J20 in service at the beginning of this year and they are developing at a astonishing speed.

One reason the PLAAF aren't putting a large stock in GPS/SAT guided weapons may be that they're expecting satellites (theirs and ours) to be either jammed or destroyed in a potential conflict with the US/Western styled militaries. They also likely expect a large portion of a war with the US/West to involve them intercepting incoming ships and aircraft, not CAS/strike missions against tank formations (with the exception of limited such missions against Taiwan).

Technologically the US and NATO forces are superior. Experience is another main key to success, the US has more than everyone else combined. However, the biggest downfall for China may be the Central Command of all forces comes from the "party". They have no ability or nor are they permitted to think on their own in the field. Every order must come from the central party or else it's not followed. Unlike the US which grants a large authority to its field commanders to act on their own.

J16 d version is now a pure electronic warfare aircraft

planes don't take off just anywhere. I believe no amount of planes can change that until cargo planes with uav fleets come onto their own

The second biggest air- US Navy: *no*

Harbor Freight Air Force

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The comments are a toxic wasteland

This may an odd comparison, but my wife is Chinese. She expects everything in her personal life to be cheap and fast. She makes rude comments on how long it takes for building projects in Ca, saying that they would have been completed in a fraction of the time in China. We have a saying in engineering; cheap, fast or right, pick any two. So if Chinese mentality is to always pick fast and cheap, it's unlikely that it will be right. Add the corruptions issues, and the US may be in good shape.

I'll go with the "flaming" option. Planes that crash tend to burn.

In any war, NEVER UNDERESTIMATE YOUR ENEMIES, no matter how inferior are they...

"We are 'Flaming Dragon'" :D :D :D (Tropic Thunder)

Treat them all like dragons and you’ll never be upset by a lizard

"I can take on the PRC". Yeah. You can. You can also stop an insinkerator if you jam your hand into it hard enough.

This is Sechwan Sauce..coming in hot

*Here comes the experts and Generals from the comments section*

Its funny how we're all watching and making predictions about a war that is more likely than not gonna happen within our lifetimes, i wonder how right binkov is.

Let's hope we never have to find out!

We left out the greatest Chinese asset of all - American investors who don't want their cash cow blown up 🐮💁🇺🇲🛠️🇷🇺

Binkov same video on Indian Airforce

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6:30 the video states that the numbers of the J-20 are low, but by early 2023, the PLA Airforce has 200-250 x J-20 in service (7-8 x Brigades). This shows just how rapidly the PLA is able to build new equipment in a few years.

Thank you for an unbiased analysis. I think your analysis highlights the chinese air force has more of a defensive posture than the USAF.

flaming dragon or baby tiger, they'll still be a pain if you challenge them. especially on their home turf.

Nothing else, but Chinese dragons do not breathe fire. Chinese dragons are generally a symbol of wind and rain. In ancient mythology, they are generally good-natured gods in charge of rivers, oceans, and rain. Anyway, as a Chinese, I have never heard of a Chinese dragon that breathes fire.😃😉

Wow, hmm that sounds delish...

China has successfully created one of the very best second rate air forces in the world.

All the members of the Flanker family are absolutely beautiful, be they Chinese or Russian or Indian

Sorry if this is mentioned later, but I wanted to comment that as soon as I saw the fleet size comparisons, it appears the US is going for the old British two power navy approach. 3300 planes is exactly as much as the next 2 air forces combined

I'm starting to wonder how many frickin' propaganda bots have posted here after lightly skimming the comments

Scary thing is , they don't have any j-10c , j 16 and j-20 fighter in 2015 Now they have around 500+ , safe to assume they will have 1000+ 4++ and 5th gen fighter by 2025 They also upgrading their j-11b with new engine and AESA radars.

China has also been upgrading its oldest planes with AI in order to turn the jets into unmanned drones. That would increase their effectiveness considering that China wouldn't need to waste good pilots on older aircraft, which will now serve a reconnaissance and decoy roles. China can send out dozens or even hundreds of these jets in a first wave strike while actual manned and advanced jets fly among them undetected.

Also that very disappointed at Israel for Equipting China with Very State Of The Art Technologies.

Wait until the Chinese figure out what it really costs to maintain a large air force. You have to figure in things like admin costs, waste disposal, fuel, people shortage, storage, maintenance, etc.

"US flight hours have been dipping in the past decade" Former Maintainer - "FUCKING GOOD"

Everybody here thinks they’re military experts in the indo-pacific region. 🤣🤣🤣

To the professional warfare experts here in the comments section, remember the words of Artanis, high lord of the Templar : "Don't think of you as victorious yet, overconfidence is your enemy's best ally" or something like that,idk, I skipped the cinematics :v

3:34 Bruh, they have finally arrived. The dedicated electronic warfare jet , the Flanker airframe based Shenyang J-16D, was unveiled a couple of weeks ago.

I tend to agree with Binkov's analysis here. While China's military (for the moment) is growing in leaps and bounds, whether or not that can be sustained over a long period of time remains to be seen, especially considering the problems China is now experiencing in their economy, population, real estate and banking system. China is also only a regional power at this time (although they would like the world to think otherwise), without the actual capability of global power projection (which, again, could change over time), and has yet to engage their military in any sort of meaningful military conflict with another aggressor, large or small. Either way, they still have a long, long way to go to catch up to US power projection, logistics, worldwide bases of operations, strong military allies and technological capabilities, as literally everything is simply a re-engineering of some other country's tech, airframes, ships, tanks, vehicles, small arms, etc. It will be an interesting ten years or so. I am old enough to remember when Japan (in the 1970s) was the "world's 2nd largest economy", and expected to overtake the US "anytime" as an economic world power. I am seeing the same claims being made (in the moment) about China. And we know how that eventually played out. Japan is a mere shadow of what it once was in that decade. So is Russia a mere shadow (militarily speaking) of what the old Soviet Union was during the Cold War. Time has a funny way of making sharp U-turns at the strangest times. And history has already shown us, time and time again, that "strength in numbers" does not necessarily translate to "power."

More accurate description: paper tiger. Looks like the real thing but will crumple upon action due to lack of experience from pilots, maintenance crews and aeronautical engineers.

I think the better judgement of Chinese equipment won't come from its use by China itself, but from its costumers. Countries like Nigeria and Pakistan have purchased Armored vehicles and aircraft from China and their more likely to use them in action first.

It is not just the USAF that china has to worry about the USN and USMC. There air doctrine differs enough that in combat it would be difficult to know whom you are fighting. I say this with the F35 coming out in more numbers in each service.

All the comments below are made with no access to accurate performance and schematic data, we have no idea how these planes will fare until they engage in combat with peer opponents.

US air force, a screeching eagle, or a cooing pigeon?

The training level china has recently raised up to US standards to make up the huge gap of technologies that our fighter aircrafts lacks but from recent reports it was only specifically for cargo based planes not fighter aircrafts. Moreover, US is soon rising their training standards to raf standards of 18.5 hours per day average if I’m not mistaken. Furthermore, the aircrafts technological difference is just like huge which plays a huge part in here. However, when a war breaks out naval and airforce or ground troops becomes useless against nuclear missiles which ends humanity which is why people are begging for no war.

They might be scary if their engines could get beyond 90s russian designs and thrust

Nice bomber. Welcome to the 20th century, China.

Isn't it weird that in the start of the video the sum of chinese and russian planes is exactly equal to the US ones?

No need to worry about the strike ability of chinese airforce, nearly 85% of the 4/5 gen fighter were still functional defect. Which mean only the 2 gen fighter is currently operational.

Multi role targeting computers will make the fighters more lethal

I would say paper tigers.

Nice video Binkov! Could you make a video on the Afghanistan situation? Like what if Tajikistan (with and without Russia) fought a limited war with the Taliban?

Nobody can know except when the real fight starts. Just like ww2 Japanese fighter planes which were thought to be wooden toys before the war.

You should talk about xq-58 valkyrie drone that will be escorting our fighters.

Here're the operational numbers of various Chinese warplanes, according to latest estimates: J-7: mostly retired or on reserve, only around 50 to 60 J-7G variant still in active service J-8: mostly retired or on reserve, only around 50 J-8F variant in active service J-10: 500+ in service (all variants combined) J-11B: 300+ in service J-15: 50+ J-16: 200+ in service J-20: somewhere between 60 to 100 are in service Su-30MKK: 73 in service Su-30MK2: 24 in service Su-35: 24 in service JH-7/7A: around 240 are in service H-6K: around 100 in service H-6J: around 20+ H-6N: 4+ KJ-500: 36+ KJ-200: 13+ KJ-2000: 4 KQ-200: 50+

Most Western nations call China's airforce "target practice". Having big numbers doesn't matter when the vast majority of their planes are zero threat

While having state of the art aircraft is valuable, having pilots with combat flying experience is priceless.

Interesting, I keep hearing mouse clicking sounds in the background but I can't imagine why one would need to click on a mouse while reading a video script - the PageDown key should be all you need I think...

Don’t forget the U.S. Navy as well. They have a ton of aircraft as well, last time I checked it was around 1800-1900 aircraft

Never underestimate combat experience. China is a growing threat for sure, though.

JH-7 looks like a SEPCAT Jaguar.

Yeah.. absolutely we should worry

One thing to always keep in mind, planes, ships, tanks...they're ultimately just tools. It's the people operating them that determine how effective they are.

Given that China is accused of opacity in their defense spending and their reported inventory, i believe they might have considerably more stuff than they let on.

In the end who does it matter who wins, when there will be no winners. Everyone will lose if war breaks out.