[Owl558]

"you can accomplish the same mission with less angst"

Not to mention that your unmanned fighters can do ariel manuevers no manned aircraft could even dream of.

[Young Werther]

Exactly. When I was in the Air Force, 1965-73 there were proposals to build fighters out of paper. Remember the commercial where a fully loaded dump truck crosses a paper bridge?

Imagine trying to dog fight a present day drone which can pull 20gs. That fighter would outgun any manned platform and could be made cheap enough to be the ultimate Kamikaze fighter!