In the past two days, the author saw a message,In 2023, only 98 F35s will be produced, a full 53 fewer than planned. You must know that even though the ** chain was severely affected during the epidemic, the F35 delivered 142 aircraft in 2021 and 169 aircraft in 2022.
Why did F35 see a significant reduction in production? It is impossible for the outside world to know except for the United States and Loma himself, but there are some speculations on the Internet.
Some netizens believe that it may be "stuck" by China, due to sanctions by China, resulting in the lack of key raw materials such as gallium and germanium in Loma, resulting in a reduction in production.
There are also analysts who believe thatThis is due to the fact that the United States believes that the F35 is no longer a match for the J20, so the production cut** occurred, the author believes that this possibility does exist.
Why didn't F22 resume production? The author has previously pointed out that the root cause is that F22 is already lagging behind in the face of J20There is no need for the United States to spend a lot of money on the production of a backward product, and it is not that it will cost billions of dollars and cost money to reopen the production line as experts say. If F22 can still crush the world, you see whether the United States will reopen the production line, which is only tens of billions of dollars, which is nothing more than trivial in terms of the financial resources of the United States.
The F35 is likely to face the same dilemma.
The stealth of the F35 should not be inferior to the J20, but in addition, the F35 is inferior to the J20 in terms of range, combat radius, situational awareness, air-to-air missiles, over-the-horizon strikes, etc.
As a fifth-generation aircraft, the F35 can't even cruise at supersonic speedsThe J20 has a cruise speed of more than 2Mach 5。In the past, the CCTV program "One Minute for Soldiers" had "one minute, J-20 can combat cruise 52 kilometers", you should still have an impression, and you will know by doing the math.
The biggest advantage of the F35 is its network node function, that is, it accepts data, transmits data, and links with other combat units of the US military to form overall situational awareness. However, this J20 has everything, and the F35 has no advantage.
That is to say, F35 has, J20 has all, and J20 has, F35 has too many to keep up, and F35 has been riddled with all kinds of problems since its inception。According to the analysis of some military experts, the F35 is only a fighter that has been praised by the United States, and in fact, it has only had initial air combat and basic ground strike capabilities so far.
In these cases, it is not surprising that the F35 has moved from Britney to "Mrs. Cow", just like its predecessor, the F22.
If this is the case, the United States will be relatively weak, the F22 will not work, and the hopeful F35 will not work now, and it was originally intended to build a "lightning wall" in Europe against the Soviet Union like the F16 in Europe, and build the "F35 Wall" in Eurasia against China and Russia, but the wall has not been repaired, and the bricks have not worked first.