The days of manned combat aircraft are numbered anyway. With testing of sophisicated stealth UCAVs, improved uplink technology, the ability to handle G-forces that would instantly kill a meat pilot, and autonomous control systems getting smarter on a weekly basis the scarf-and-goggle days will soon be over... Watch out folks, the X-9 Ghost is the airshow demonstration craft of the future.
You'll never replace the pilot. Some people think you can but you can't there's always going to be apilot in an aircraft hanging his butt out there, he's going to be onscene and see what's going on.
UCAVs can be jammed
Fire and forget hits where you tell it to, it doesn't care if that's a convoy of refugees or an enemy armored column on the ground.
AI doesn't adapt and is far more predictable than any human