Seriously. 38 years in the future? That's the same span as from 1909 (the dawn of heavier than air flight and radio) to 2047 (computers, nuclear weapons, aircraft carriers, ballistic missiles, radar, submarines, jet aircraft). And from there to 1985 (guided missiles, ICBMs, satellites, GPS). With such a long time frame damned near any prediction may come to pass.
It's plenty likely that by 2047 we'll not only have fully autonomous combat aircraft but we'll have automated aircraft fabricators and aircraft fabricator fabricators.
It's almost as valid to say that we'll be fighting sentient robots in hand-to-hand combat in a post-apocalyptic world in 2047.