History repeats itself. We did the same shit in the 60’s with the F-4. Had no guns because we were going to use it’s missiles to kill enemy planes. The result??? It got waxed on a regular basis by the Soviet Migs—We will never learn. If we are going to go high tech then go pilot-less!!
We got iced in WW II with the old P-40 vs the Zero, With the Migs in Vietnam, now we are using this one size fits all f-35. Are we sending up our pilots to die in air combat? Just because we have fought 3rd World Nations who have junk to fly—what happens when we face a real enemy with modern weapons an equal to our own? Can we defeat—say—France or Germany? Can we mix it up with Italy or Sweden? What about Russia? Do we have the tools to do the job or have we been so focused on price we have let slip quality?