Elon Musk Tells Air Force General That Fighter Jets Are Over

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 Elon Musk Tells Air Force General That Fighter Jets Are Over
 

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk told a room full of U.S. Air Force pilots last week that “the fighter jet era has passed,” as CNBC reports. He made the comments at the Air Warfrare Symposium in Orlando Florida last Friday, referring to the fact that remotely-controlled drones — and not extremely expensive fighter jets — are the future.

“Drone warfare is where the future will be,” Musk told Air Force lieutenant general John Thompson at the event. “It’s not that I want the future to be — it’s just, this is what the future will be.”
Trillion Dollar Jet

Musk also argued that the American F-35 fighter jet, developed by Lockheed Martin, should have some competition. The jet has cost the Pentagon — and taxpayers — over a trillion dollars to develop. The latest iteration of the F-35 has been steeped in problems, getting abysmal results during recent testing.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-air-force-fighter-jets-over

[EdinVA]

Marketing BS..... wants more funding from the taxpayer.
Fighters will be around for a long long time, we just need to get smarter about how we design/procure them.

[sneakypete]

Marketing BS..... wants more funding from the taxpayer.
Fighters will be around for a long long time, we just need to get smarter about how we design/procure them.

No,true. We are entering the age of late teen boys and girls sitting in a concrete bunker somewhere fighting aerial wars using joysticks. You can keep adapting jet fighters to be faster and more manueverable,but you will soon reach a point where you can't adapt humans to keep up even using pressure suits.

[EdinVA]

No,true. We are entering the age of late teen boys and girls sitting in a concrete bunker somewhere fighting aerial wars using joysticks. You can keep adapting jet fighters to be faster and more manueverable,but you will soon reach a point where you can't adapt humans to keep up even using pressure suits.

@sneakypete
You can fly, what we used to call, air to mud missions, fly in dump a bomb and escape but aerial combat is a whole different animal and cannot be done with drones.  Requires a constant evaluation 360 degree situational awareness that a 100 cameras will not give you.

[sneakypete]

@sneakypete
You can fly, what we used to call, air to mud missions, fly in dump a bomb and escape but aerial combat is a whole different animal and cannot be done with drones.  Requires a constant evaluation 360 degree situational awareness that a 100 cameras will not give you.

@EdinVA

I am assuming a 360 degree view via computers,and truth to tell,the operators will be there for backup in case a chip fails.