5 US Aircraft That Represent The Future Of Air Combat

The United States is now working on the next generation of aircraft designed to stay ahead of China. The US considers itself to be in a period of heightened peer-on-peer competition that it hasn’t seen since the Cold War. Cutting-edge aircraft are being developed and built for the Air Force, Marine Corps, and Navy. Several aircraft are in the process of exiting (or nearing their exit from) service, including the AV-8B Harrier II, B-1 Lancer, legacy F/A-18 Hornet, the Lockheed U-2, A-10 Warthog (by 2030), F-15C/D, and others.