The US has not designed or completed a clean sheet of paper fighter in 20 years.
If this goes as well as the F-35 they should have started 10 or more years ago to have it by 2030.
If procurement had been as good in WWII as it is now we’d be goose stepping and eating lots of rice.
Good luck with that.
“If procurement had been as good in WWII”
In WW2 we had many DOZENS of aircraft in development at the same time. The majority of the designs FAILED and were never built. Comparing the complexity of ANY WW2 aircraft to a modern’ fighter is like comparing a Sopwith camel do the space shuttle.