So, what should replace the F-35?

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60. The problems are soluble or irrelevant

Three dimensional basic and advanced dogfighting rely on assessing the positions and potential future positions of the adversaries around you and putting your aircraft into an advantageous future position. Computers can do the physics math lots better than humans relying on pattern recognition and gut feeling from experience. As for strategy and tactics, those are also programmable, as evidenced by chess playing programs.

You'd have to use existing IFF technologies. All modern fighters look sort of alike in terms of shape and configuration. There is no reason for anyone to put helpful paint jobs on airplanes. Besides, other fighters are too far away for visual identification almost all of the time.

The F-35 is not going to loiter over a ground battlefield at low altitude and low speed. It is not a drone. It's attack modes would be controlled by ground controllers or by inputs from controllers using surveillance drones who would provide coordinates and target designations. An unmanned attack drone with F-35 performance characteristics would operate similarly.