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Isn't a tool for the last generation's war? Won't the future will be cheap as dirt drone swarms?

• nradov 8y ago
  Sure that will be the future. But not today. They need something now that can actually fly and fight while those drones are being developed. This isn't software. Lifecycles are measured in decades.
  • toddh 8y ago
    Who are we fighting today that our current inventory of fighters can't manage? Seems like there's sufficient grace period. It's like running cable instead of just developing 5g.
    • nradov 8y ago
      Simulations indicate that legacy 4th-generation fighters are very vulnerable to the latest anti-aircraft missile systems that Russia has started selling all over the world. This is happening right now, there's no grace period.
      • toddh 8y ago
        You're putting a lot of faith that handful of F-35s can survive ever advancing anti-aircraft technologies. Not a good strategy IMHO.