{"id":387996,"date":"2026-03-17T04:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-f-22-raptor-stacks-up-chengdu-j-20-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T04:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:00:17","slug":"how-the-f-22-raptor-stacks-up-against-the-chengdu-j-20-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=387996","title":{"rendered":"How The F-22 Raptor Stacks Up Against The Chengdu J-20 In 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lockheed Martin <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"87592\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>F-22 Raptor<\/span><\/span> and the Chengdu J-20 Mighty Dragon are often compared online, but they are built for different mission sets. In a conflict, there may be F-22 vs J-20 engagements, but these might be avoided. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csis.org\/analysis\/first-battle-next-war-wargaming-chinese-invasion-taiwan\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Wargaming by think-tank CSIS has shown time and again that the biggest threat to US aircraft is being destroyed on the ground<\/a>, not so much in the air. Still, these are the two air superiority fighters in the US and Chinese inventory and are expected to be the tip of each&#8217;s proverbial spear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The F-22 and J-20 are two flagship fighter jets built for different missions with most their true capabilities classified.<\/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":[396,12389,7786,628],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-chengdu-j-20","category-f-22-raptor","category-fighter-jets"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387996","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=387996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387997,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387996\/revisions\/387997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=387996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=387996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=387996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}