Your comments are so true. The stealth Eagle actually carries less of a weapon load than a regular F-15.
Until more Raptors get built, the opposing planes don’t have to be better, they just have to be more numerous. The chinese could make something like that happen.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60S0UW20100129
Lieutenant Colonel Marcel de Haas, Russian security researcher at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael, was not convinced of the plane’s bright future.
“My impression is that this new fighter plane is also more propaganda than a real expectancy,” he told Reuters by e-mail.