BTW, not to derail, but some airpower experts are likely to drop by.
Can someone explain to me what’s so hard to understand about air supremacy doctrine? You fly the baddest azz possible fighters and anti-SAM planes, clear the airspace, and then you can fly busses with wings to provide ground support/bombing. Instead we’ve killed the F22 in favor of a “multi-role” F35 that won’t own the air nearly as well.
Insanity. Or am I missing something?
Our fighters already stretch the limits of what is possible in a manned fighter. The next thing is going to unmanned fighters. Put your money on the next technology, not the last.