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Originally posted by W4rl0rD
Originally posted by Broadsword20068
Not really, Germany lost it cuz they tried to take over the world. Same with Britain.
But China has an oppressive gov't, so they will never be allowed to dominate. America will not "face" anything like that.
And China has a while to go military-wise before they catch the United States.
What about the former USSR? Were they not oppresive? Yet they still dominated the USA military-wise. The USSR did not try to take over the world. Can you deny what the Americans are doing in the middle east now and threatening North Korea about its nuclear arms program? It is a dynamic world now, China is slowly changing, look at the USSR, they tried to be democratic in a short time, and look what it did to them.
Originally posted by Broadsword20068
The F-22's stealth technology is far more advanced than that of the F-117; and they have tried to detect the F-22, but it is very hard to do so. The point of the F-22's stealth is that it is a far more difficult plane to detect and too other enemy aircraft, it would be really hard to detect it; places where an F-15 would most definitely be serious danger an F-22 could venture into.
Originally posted by W4rl0rD
Face it you Americans on this forum,all superpowers will lose their powers at one point, the Germans lost it even with a whole continent's recources,the Russians lost it,and now its time that the Chinese took over the Americans as the world superpower.
yup, i think the single engine design makes planes like the F-16 and J-10 look pretty cute(nice choice of word for something designed to kill and destroy wouldn't u say?) But I still think the 2 engine design is sexier, like the F-14/15/22.
I'm really into the aesthetics of aircraft design and form, ie to my eyes the difference between a DC-8 and a 707 is perfectly plain to see whereas someone else might see them as being the same, which probably explains why I leap upon comments on here about planes looking the same (ie LCA = Mirage, Rafale = Typhoon etc).