Sources:
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2025/03/the-f-47-fighter-cost-problem-no-one-wants-to-touch/
https://defencesecurityasia.com/en/iran-shahed-drones-gulf-patriot-air-defence-cost-crisis/ (assuming 2 missiles to each drone and the lowest estimate of drone costs)


Why don’t they just make the drone swarms able to assemble into an F-47 like a Megazord?
Because then Lockheed Martin executives wouldn’t get their quarterly bonus.
It’s a Boeing plane.