The US and Chinese air forces are rethinking whether it’s possible to control the air


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The wreckage of a Ukrainian fighter jet in a field in Kherson in January. Pierre Crom/Getty Images Advanced sensors and long-range weapons are making air superiority harder to achieve. The US and Chinese air forces are both thinking about how they'd try to control the air in a war. Experts on both sides see achieving permanent control of the air as increasingly unlikely. The classic definition of air superiority comes down a simple proposition: Your air force can conduct its assigned missions while keeping an enemy air force from doing the same. Yet the US and China are grappling with...