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Yes, wait until we have an opponent which requires advanced fighter jets, then order development to start. Only will take 2 decades to reach production. And hey

• simonblack 5y ago
  ... take 20 years .... Stealth is overrated. It's been over-rated since the Serbs shot down an F117 twenty years ago. AI can be good. But a man is better AI than AI itself. And generally it's a whole lot lighter in weight. The F-35 is too heavy, and has too little range to be useful. WW2 planes were simple and spartan. They were light in weight and more manoeuvrable because they were simple and spartan. America relies too much on advanced weaponry. (Vietnam, Afghanistan... cough, cough) The Germans in WW2 had the most advanced weaponry. But the Allies and Soviets swamped those advanced weapons with sheer numbers of 'good enough' weapons. It's no good having a weapon with a 100:1 kill-ratio if the enemy can throw 101 of his weapons at it.