Have people not been watching all the combat footage coming out of Ukraine? The future of combat isn’t in drones or unmanned aircraft even though Ukraine has been effective in the war with them. But end of the day war is about coordination and communication. Watching Ukrainian coordination between ground troops and artillery, or watching commanders use 1000 dollar commercial planes to watch a battlefield play out and redirect artillery has been such a stark difference in comparison to the Russians. air superiority is still somewhat in Russia’s favor and if they had a plane near even half of the f-35’s capabilities they would have a lot more success in taking out key Ukrainian weapons and command. Meanwhile they’re flying their su-57’s with unguided ordinances with no communication with ground or naval troops leading to disastrous results.