Manned air superiority fighters will be obsolete in the near future. AI controlled aircraft will be more maneuverable and faster reacting. Attack aircraft will still be manned.
drones that sound like mopeds are really cheap and pretty hard to shoot down. You could use something like Phalanx point defense, but first they have really low radar cross sections and second the drone is a whole lot cheaper than the Phalanx system bullets to shoot down the drone.
This particular fighter is supposed to quarterback a mini swarm of drones, each with a specific purpose.
Go use the brave search engine (not dependent on the China-edited Google database) and search for China’s “loyal wingman” drone.
It’s well past the vapor ware stage like this fighter.
And, yes, I do believe I will be among the last human fighter pilots on the planet.