{"id":33384,"date":"2024-05-03T17:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T07:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/analysis-china-largest-air-force\/"},"modified":"2024-05-03T17:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T07:00:12","slug":"analysis-is-china-on-the-path-to-have-the-largest-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=33384","title":{"rendered":"Analysis: Is China On The Path To Have The Largest Air Force?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/largest-air-forces-list\/\">Comparing the world&#8217;s largest air force fleets<\/a> is something of a fool&#8217;s errand owing to the many complexities, false impressions, and wrong takeaways from just comparing numbers. However, statistics are still one metric (among many) to gauge an air force&#8217;s strength. With recent reports of the size of the Chinese Air Force(s) about to overtake the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/us-air-force\/\">United States Air Force<\/a>, this article will attempt to add a little more context to the debate.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China continues to grow and modernize its Air Force while the USAF is shrinking, acquiring fewer though more capable aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1258,396,397,231,8575,412,1384],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force","category-aircraft","category-analysis","category-asia","category-chinese-air-force","category-military","category-us-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33389,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33384\/revisions\/33389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}