Kinda reminds me of Flight of the Old Dog - in that case it was 80's high-tech stuffed in to a B-52, giving it 'escort' capabilities... As many have pointed ou

Kinda reminds me of Flight of the Old Dog - in that case it was 80's high-tech stuffed in to a B-52, giving it 'escort' capabilities... As many have pointed out, this type of air-to-air platform may make sense for knocking out our current opposition, but when that opposition is all drones? That's the real game changer - a drone wouldn't even have to 'launch' a missile, you could build one with a secondary impulse engine that would turn it in to a missile. Have dozens/hundreds flying on-station in high-efficiency/high-boredom flight paths, all controlled over-the-horizon, or from a standoff AWACs stop platform 100s of miles away. The potential impact on naval warfare may be even greater...