Battlefield role
High-end multirole aircraft for precision strikes, air dominance, and answering enemy armor.
The advanced jet is what air power grows into once information warfare matures: an aircraft that arrives already knowing its target, strikes exactly, and leaves the enemy to discover which building used to matter most.
Its economics are unforgiving in both directions. Each airframe is a major investment, so the advanced-jet game is about certainty — drones find, intelligence confirms, and the jet spends its one pass on something worth the price.