//cut the Osprey completely as well//
He might, but I hope they save the F-35, we really need that airplane’s capability IMO.
I think we need to get out of the business of manned fighter or bomber aircraft. The single most restrictive factor in improving aircraft superiority is the human in the cockpit.
Remove the pilot and you can design planes that are out of a SciFi fantasy.
If we are to win against an enemy like the Chinese we’ll need the capability of killing massive amounts of them with little harm to us. The war-fighting meme of the US military, since nearly its beginning, is to trade technology for lives. It is a sound one and fitting for a republic.
That future lies in UAVs not manned craft.