Doing homework on the ‘Air War choices ’ I have come to the conclusion that the hundreds of boffins and military ‘experts ‘ (including Elon Musk )working on the way to go are not in agreement - so are keeping agile dog fighters in play - before gambling on as yet unproven missile /drone technology.
Aircraft manufactures and the whole aerospace industry must be lobbying hard (and the tax payer foots the huge bill) - the price of freedom! £100 million for one F35!
All new ideas are obviously Top Secret so it is impossible to find out what is really going on. Let’s hope that America keeps propping up Europe and keeps ahead of China.Hopefully Russia will lag behind.Perhaps UK can benefit with our historical talent for innovation /invention ?
One thing certain is that technology is advancing at an unprecedented rate and that Star Wars is not as far away as we once thought !