It really amazing that you do not see the contradiction.
Likewise, if you know you have never served in the military, you would have never spoke with 'absolute and unequivocal authority' on a subject you know nothing about.
The Americans on this forum have represented the US Army, US Navy, and US Air Force. We have posted detailed explanations on how things work and what the military life is like in ways that most sensible people know that only veterans would know. We have done it out of proportion to how many Americans are there on this forum.
What offends us the most is
NOT the insults the likes of you leveled at us, but at the gross ignorance the likes of you revealed on the theme of this forum: the military.
How ? Based upon what ? Your military experience ?
What you missed about the article is that the F-35 does not need to enter Chinese airspace in order to observe and send what it observed to a third party.
Yes, the article does say this...
But the F-35's radar can enable the F-35 to look over a country's border without crossing said border. We have done such sidescan operations with the old SR-71 cameras. So what make you think we must cross Chinese airspace in order to observe ?
With this test, the US further reinforce our lead in tactical network enable combat techniques, something your Chinese friends are still struggling with.
Here is what the article said...
The land based ABMD can be outside of those borders. If we can do it to a land based missile unit, we can do it to a sub based one.
The F-35 can stay outside a country's border, create a list of targets, and send that list to a land/sub based ballistic missile delivery system. That mean we can put Yulin naval base under threat and China would not know it, and if there is a shooting fight between US and China, we would be able to target all vital mainland China vital defense basing before the first bullet.
You think we are amateurs at this ?
You want to see arrogance ? Go look in the mirror.,
A janitor on an aircraft carrier would be more of an expert than all you
COMBINED.
The F-111 was controversial, and yet it became the Soviet's most feared penetration fighter-bomber. That fear was confirmed by Adolf Tolkachev when he sent to the West the Kremlin's lack of response to the F-111s in England.
The F-16 has its own technical issues, and yet it is better than anything your China have yet produced.
Face it, kid. Any of our jet with technical issues is still better than the stuff your China is trying to replicate.