Having human pilots is going to play out the same way cavalry charges did in WW1. Old out of touch generals who romanticize how things where back in the day sending airmen to death needlessly.
The inability to change and adapt to new technologies plagues the US airforce and navy. Resulting in both of them being completely miss-equipped for what any war that doesn't involve fighting impoverished herdspeople would look like today. Only a fraction of both's budget is spent on systems that are actually good at anything other than showboating and being profit centers for mil-contractors. The majority of their budgets are captured by outdated manmetal (surface ships/pilot'd aircraft) most of which would be expended very quickly if a conflict ever did break out.
God forbid we ever have another conventional war but if we do you can look forward to having a couple dozen hypersonic glide vehicles (costing pennies on the dollar) sinking entire carrier groups in minutes. Swarms of drones just flying past over-priced f-35's, letting them expend all their munitions (which probably cost more than the drones), and still making it to hit their intended targets.
But the US navy's still got some kinda ok submarines so they got that going for them, the airforce.... idk I guess they can keep talking about "stealth" (fancy paint) and how its effective at avoiding detection from the underfunded military's of 3rd world dictators.
The inability to change and adapt to new technologies plagues the US airforce and navy. Resulting in both of them being completely miss-equipped for what any war that doesn't involve fighting impoverished herdspeople would look like today. Only a fraction of both's budget is spent on systems that are actually good at anything other than showboating and being profit centers for mil-contractors. The majority of their budgets are captured by outdated manmetal (surface ships/pilot'd aircraft) most of which would be expended very quickly if a conflict ever did break out.
God forbid we ever have another conventional war but if we do you can look forward to having a couple dozen hypersonic glide vehicles (costing pennies on the dollar) sinking entire carrier groups in minutes. Swarms of drones just flying past over-priced f-35's, letting them expend all their munitions (which probably cost more than the drones), and still making it to hit their intended targets.
But the US navy's still got some kinda ok submarines so they got that going for them, the airforce.... idk I guess they can keep talking about "stealth" (fancy paint) and how its effective at avoiding detection from the underfunded military's of 3rd world dictators.