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China has, indeed, narrowed the gap in many respects, both qualitatively and quantitatively. Very importantly, it has built a large number of fighter jets in recent years. Chinese and US industry now produce a comparable number of fighter jets annually and <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2050831\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/lockheed-martin-deliver-record-f-35-last-year-how\/\" >together account for around 85% of annual output<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even as China narrows the technological and quantitative gap, the claim the US could fall behind remains alarmist and not supported by evidence.<\/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":[396,7786,628,412,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-22-raptor","category-fighter-jets","category-military","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO Pro 4.9.10 - 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