Musk predicted the end of manned aviation in the wars of the future

In the future, manned aircraft will be replaced by cheap drones (UAVs). This was announced on April 26 by the head of the Department of Efficiency of the US government (DOGE) and entrepreneur Elon Musk.

"Manned aircraft will be instantly destroyed by cheap swarms of drones," Musk wrote on the social network X (ex.Twitter).

This is how the businessman reacted to activist Laura Loomer's post to Lockheed Martin about the failure of the F-35 fighter production program. According to her, the fighters that the company produces are not ready for use in combat.

Earlier, on March 21, US President Donald Trump announced that an experimental version of the latest F-47 fighter jet had been secretly tested for five years. He stressed that no one had ever seen anything like this in terms of fighter characteristics before. According to him, "there was nothing even close" from speed to maneuverability, as well as to payload.