We are entering the age of robots and missiles. Moore's law made it inevitable and the only question now is the military going to fight it and set themselves up for failure or go with it let everything change. The biggest changes are coming for the biggest platforms- aircraft carriers are now missile fodder and building new supercarriers when we could be building a mind-boggling fleet of drones and missiles for that money might lose us the next war. Likewise the big boomers are going to be detected by sea glider drones. Small deep-diving submarines that can stay on the bottom 20,000 feet down might survive but everything else will go quick. In my view we should go back to sailing ship days in concept and just build a merchant fleet of 1000 foot long container ships we can rapidly convert into warships. The same with jumbo jets- have hatches in the belly to drop missiles and make them all convertible into weapons carriers. These platforms could support the drones and keep a pipeline of missiles flowing. And of course, a truly massive inventory of missiles that are designed to be upgraded.

It is plain the the future is in unmanned bombers AND fighters. An unmanned fighter can pull g forces many times that of a manned fighter. The F 35 is likely the last generation of manned fighter/bombers