The F-15 is old school.
It also has a combat record of 100+ kills and zero, repeat, zero, losses. The best fighter ever built, so far.
I still don’t understand the point that the OP was making. But we have had the drone discussion before, on BITOG, and the only ones who are saying that drones ca do fighter missions, are people who don’t actually understand fighter missions.
There are not a whole lot of people on the board who have flown a fighter in combat, or been involved in planning theater size air campaigns, which requires a detailed, complex, understanding of how air power is used.
Guys who were BOG and saw the missions flown have more understanding than a layman, but even then, they’re like the proverbial group of blind me describing an elephant. One grabs the tail, and says, “an elephant is a skinny creature, covered with hair”..becasue that is his only intersection with something much larger.
That’s how these discussions go, and I freely admit, they frustrate me. Guys opine and p[ost on a topic with which they have little understanding, and they don’t know just how much they don’t know.
Imagine reading post after post on oil and engine building by a person who has never changed oil, doesn’t have a driver’s license, has never driven a car, doesn’t own a car, or even a wrench, and has never even seen a car, and yet, will tell you all about which oil works and how to do it.
That’s where I am with this topic.