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Supercruise is only good when you have long distance to cross and you need to get to the battlefied quickly. Against PAF, supercruise is not necessary. Evenmore, you won't see IAF planes going supersonic because going supersonic is a surefire way of alerting the enemy that your planes are in the vicinity due to sonic booms.
Against PLAAF, supercruise may make sense seeing that you may wanna engage the PLAAF planes deep in their territory before they come into your airspace but then again, it would mean outdistancing your AWACs and ground air support.
I suspect that the USAAF are finding the feature of supercruise to be of a limited utility and value because they are loathesome to leave their combat planes without AWACs support. At most they can operate 300 miles out from a point. To get to the 300 mile marker at subsonic speed at around 600 miles mph would take 30 minutes. Going at supercruse at around 1200 mph is 15 minutes. The question is does those 15 minutes make the difference?
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