Strategy Page is reporting that top brass at the Pentagon have concluded the century-long era of the fighter pilot will soon be over.
"The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs (a navy admiral and the senior military guy in the Pentagon) and his boss (the Secretary of Defense) have both said that the F-35 (above) will probably be last American manned combat aircraft."
Technology has evolved to the point that in the forseeable future, fighter planes and bombers will be UAVs - Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.