Against fighters they suck. That will not change until they can put a railgun blast or high power laser downrange.
However, F-22s and F-35s will have easy done that by then. In a shooting war all manned aircraft that can carry a missile will be used to keep fighters at bay while stealhy drones blast their airfields, support into shreds.
Afterwords who cares about jamming? Drones are programmed with missions ahead of time and like it is said above. Jamming makes you a BIG HARM target.
Hell I bet most of the time the connection will only be used to report back on how the hellfires are ripping a new hole into the enemy. Drones work better in flocks.
The flock way is the best way. A flock of UAVs means mission success period. Kill one UAV and within moments the sam launcher is tagged and blown to shreads by the others.
And when they get the ability to use Bofors and 20mm? Win..
With all this it is obvious the days of manned military aircraft in the USAF are coming to an end. Some give it 50 years. I give it 15-10.
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