Who has the most -- not merely more -- experience at air superiority ? Between the US and China, it is certainly not China and even the most nationalistic Chinese on this forum will have to agree.
So here is what I have been saying on this forum for yrs...
- Air Dominance. The ability of an air force to compel other air forces to rearray themselves, usually into inferior postures.
- Air Superiority. The ability of an air force to achieve operational control of contested airspace, to do it repeatedly, and if there are any losses, those losses would not pose a statistical deterrence to that ability.
- Air Supremacy. He flies, he dies.
In Desert Storm, of which I am a USAF veteran, we went from dominance to supremacy in less than 48 hrs. The Iraqi Air Force at that time was the most formidable in the region in terms of both numbers and combat experience.
China have not contribute to the art and science of aerial warfare since the dawn of aviation. That is not an insult but an incontestable fact. And currently, the PLA is struggling to reform itself -- in the mold of the US military. While the PLA is struggling to learn new things, we have been well on the way of refining or even discarding some things that the PLA is trying to learn.
So put away the science for now, what make you think the PLA air forces have any chance against the USAF and USN ?