Which military in the world do you believe poses an air superiority threat to USA?
Military capabilities are of themselves unimportant. They only take on meaning in comparison to the opposition.
“Which military in the world do you believe poses an air superiority threat to USA?”
Your question embodies the classic error of being prepared for the last war and the last battle instead of the future battle, future war, and future enemy capability often unanticipated when your own battleforce was being designed, constructed, and trained. Our air forces are at the present moment the most numerous and most effective on the planet. Nonetheless, they are bbadly aged and susceptible to being severely degraded by high attrition rates. While the potential cause of such high attrition rates may not be apparent at this moment, it must be planned for in the event of unforseen commitments and enemy weaponry capabillities. An error in this area is not a problem which c an be remedied during the course of a modern battle or war. Aircraft procurement and pilot training requires years of time which modern warfare does not provide.
“Military capabilities are of themselves unimportant. They only take on meaning in comparison to the opposition.”
At the time in which the aircraft procurement and pilot training must take place to account for the unexpectedly high attrition rates, the opposition and threat are likely to be unknown and/or underestimated. France, Germany, and Japan paid deraly for making this crucial mistake. The United States is presently playing it dangerously close with its aging aircraft and low pilot strengths. The currently envisioned F-22 Raptor and F-25 aircraft strengths are much too thin to support sustained combat operations in a combat environment in which any kind of significant losses are to be sustained. By the time you subtract the aircraft being used in training, maintenance, and assignments outside the theater of combat, you’ll have at best one or a few dozen of these advanced combat aircraft in that theater of combat where you need them.This is much too thin of a margin for error.