the USA spends a lot of money in bases around the world and have black programs, China has no chances to beat the USA, the next American administration will focus in more China as a Military threat.
J-20 is a heavy fighter, it is expensive, labour intensive, needs lots of pieces, software.
40 aircraft might be the ideal, but remember Japan nor South Korea have a chance to succeed because aircraft are expensive.
J-20 for example to keep it flying must be in the $20000-30000 dollars per hour.
Tell me how many chinese can eat just with 20 J-20s flying one hour?
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The Russians are building S-70 Okhotnik as a fighter, it is cheaper to have a 1000 km/hour robot plane with higher G capability no human onboard so 9G is not the limit, plus much more stealthy.
Gripen which is one of the cheapest aircraft flies per around USD $10000 dollars an hour
Okhotnik will be a full-fledged multifunctional [aerial] vehicle with the possibility of using it as a long-range unmanned fighter-interceptor," the source told Sputnik.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia’s stealth heavy combat drone Okhotnik ("Hunter") will carry out flight tests involving the use of weapons next year, a source in the aircraft industry told Sputnik.
sputniknews.com
let us suppose J-20 cost 70 million dollars a piece, and a flying hour of $18000.
Why do you think most pilots train in simulators?
the reality is J-20 will become to expensive, the Russians know expensive aircraft are difficult too mantain so they are going for a unmanned fighter.
Now think a higher thrust air breathing engine is the best solution for range and payload in fact the best is the use the less fuel and more air so S-70 should be more practical than J-20 or Su-57 and that is the reason it is bigger than american or Chinese UAVs
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so 40 might be produced but will not fly as often and remember biggest problem of aircraft once they are operational are obsolete, in 2020 very likely F-22 is obsolete and Russia probably can dody the americans have 6th generation fighters