Honda ads are more accurate.

Because the 5th gens aren’t ever going to be what we thought they were, and some MIT educated Chinese kid may stumble upon a revolutionary way to detect our stealth designs, ala Pyotr Yakovlevich Ufimtsev.

Your theory is good, but if the USAF thought that was the future, I’m not sure we wouldn’t have built too few F-23s.

its going to have to be 99% autonomous in capability

The best predictor that manned fighters are going to persist is that the guys making that decision are fighter pilots.

You’re absolutely correct.

There may be a very good reason we stopped making F-22s and don’t seem to care that the F-35 is a Charlie Foxtrot of the highest order.

That’s fucking awesome

Not fast and expensive enough?

This reminds me of Corvette using wood floorboards instead of some exotic material.

There’s no muzzle flip because it weighs four pounds.

One non operational jet insulting another?

I grew up in Tampa and wondered how we could have earthquakes so far from a fault line for a while.

Sounds like you need to go out tonight with some toilet paper and eggs and administer some Freedom Justice.

So many kids aren’t going to get this.

Nice to know it can, I guess.

I’m not an engineer, but a zoology major, so I’ve got a fair bit of science under my belt.

Do you even Kerbel, bro?

There are so many trigger words in your post I’m going to need to talk to someone about my feelings.

Dad was a kid camping in New Mexico when he saw a fireball light up the sky like noon, and pass from one horizon to the other almost instantaneously, and soundlessly.