Cool, I was just wondering why no one was mentioning the pink elephant in the room. > not a failure of realism. Actually it's exactly that. What you just said

Cool, I was just wondering why no one was mentioning the pink elephant in the room. > not a failure of realism. Actually it's exactly that. What you just said proves it. In reality, there are a lot more aircraft than being shown on that map due to the low number of volunteers and stealth nature of the aircraft.