I think that the economics of anything newer is going to be prohibitive.
The country is broke. Just the least amount of stress on the system and its gonna fall apart.
I don’t see anybody complaining about the trillion dollars that Obama dropped on the Dept. of Education, HUD, and several of his other favorite govt. agencies. But when DoD needs anything, the answer is always, “There’s no money...” The totally bogus $400 billion bank bailout would’ve purchased 100 CVN aircraft carriers. The money is there, it’s just being squandered in bad directions. This is what happens when you have a president that won’t do his job by submitting a budget and idiots in congress give him a blank check to keep the govt. quasi-running.