> Even with computer control a big long range gun will often run out of bullets before sinking an opposing ship as accuracy decreases quadratically with range.

> Even with computer control a big long range gun will often run out of bullets before sinking an opposing ship as accuracy decreases quadratically with range. We're talking about defensive missiles and guns, nobody is using a defensive gun to try and sink an enemy warship. > Any modern air defenses/fighters will both outrange and destroy aircraft such as the Super Tucano which won't be able to mount sufficient radar to observe even non-stealth F-15s. Of course, that's a built-in assumption. Another built in assumption is that it is a 1:4 or 1:8 F-35:Super Tucano ratio, since it is a "mass" strategy. A lot of cheap "good enough" assets instead of fewer incredible ones. Even if the F-35 has air superiority where it is, it doesn't where it isn't, that's both obvious but also the trap the US has walked into by reducing the number and increasing the technological superiority. Drone swarms are the ultimate anti F-35, because they're cheap, mass in numbers, and "good enough." The F-35 literally doesn't have the munitions onboard to kill more than half a dozen.