Still irrelevant to my comment that you replied to; it belongs in a separate thread. Noone suggested cheap suicide drones can replace the F-35 in general. I di

Still irrelevant to my comment that you replied to; it belongs in a separate thread. Noone suggested cheap suicide drones can replace the F-35 in general. I did point out that the military has a weak spot in economic asymmetric warfare using drones against it. This has been manifesting for over a year now, with commercial shipping in the Red Sea/Suez. You're quite aware of that. The military has more than one mission, and air(/sea/satellite) superiority with China in a hypothetical Taiwan war is not the only scenario. > Funding for the F-35 program will not be cut; if anything it will increase. Clearly the tech lobby's interests compete with traditional defense contractors. Supposedly they are now competing for the same (possibly shrinking) overall defense appropriations. If that is not the case, then defense spending will continue to bloat.