Credit: U.S. Air Force
For decades, politicians and defense officials have expected the manned fighter to die, for myriad technological and strategic reasons. In the 1930s, then-U.K. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin claimed “the bomber will always get through” and that defensive fighters were therefore futile. The U.K.’s...
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