The US Air Force Research Lab has released a video showing details of a possible US airstrike on enemy positions in the foreseeable future.
In the footage "The Call to Action," a state-of-the-art F-35A fighter jet serves for the first time as a piloted mothership. It carries out a combat mission accompanied by a number of semi-autonomous drones, which destroy the air defenses of an imaginary enemy.
Such a tactic may be used by the US Air Force during suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD) missions by 2030, according to the US magazine Popular Mechanics.
"The clip is also a plea by US Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson, who last year launched an initiative to upgrade the Air Force's science and technology strategy" by 2030, the magazine said.
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The F-35A is a modified version of the fifth-generation US all-weather stealth multirole fighter F-35, designed to perform ground attack and air superiority missions.