In a shooting war with an industrial power America will will lose many good pilots flying defective planes against a foe with better ships (or drones). A sad day for America if WW III starts and it doesn’t go nuke. Bad ships can still be good against 3rd and 4th world rebels, or local insurrectionists. Heck, Biplanes would work fine in a war with some failed state in Central America. But, we are entering a time of wars and civil disruption. Heaven help us!
But there is hope, because the Russians at least have proven over the last 3 years to be even more corrupt and incompetent than we are. China is also very corrupt, but as for military competence we have no data. Yet.