I wonder what's hidden away in 2015???
And you will never know until they want you to.
Honest question: are there any airborne offensive operations of the past couple of decades that couldn't have been done with mildly updated B52s, A10s and Canberras?
The F35 as flawed as it appears is not primarly intended for that.
The fact is, we think things should be getting easier, in fact they will be getting harder. Whilst there are potential major adversaries, we have to hold the deterrent line against them, as well have the ability to take on the mozzie bites like ISIS.
The problem with the major adversaries is they require multiple deacadel thinking, something that has the potential to go very wrong.
Its becoming apparent with the combination of the idiot in the whitehouse, psychopath in the Kremlin and China starting to position itself, some major defence rethinking is going to be required.