According to the website of Defense News magazine on December 24th, during the first year of Trump's next presidency, the Air Force will open up a new path for how it conducts air combat, which will have an impact on the coming decades. The US Air Force will spend most of 2024 figuring out how - and even whether - to continue its planned development of the sixth generation fighter jet, known as the "Next Generation Air Dominance" program. However, the initial expected cost of a single aircraft for the "Next Generation Air Dominance" program was approximately three times that of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, ranging from $250 million to $300 million, which caused the Air Force's plan to deviate from track. This summer, the Air Force suspended the proposed contract signing for the program and initiated a review of the "Next Generation Air Dominance" program and its overall air superiority strategy to determine if there are more cost-effective ways to achieve its goals. According to reports, the US Air Force had originally planned to make a decision on the "next-generation air superiority" program before the end of 2024. But after Trump won the election, the Air Force announced in December that it would hand over the option to the new administration. The US Air Force believes that this advanced fighter jet, which will replace the F-22 Raptor fighter jet, will become part of a larger system, including autonomous unmanned wingmen known as collaborative combat aircraft. General David Allwin, Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, said on December 7th that the technology and capabilities proposed by competing manufacturers of the "Next Generation Air Advantage" program, mainly Boeing and Lockheed Martin, are "incredible". But he said that before the Air Force is committed to a certain route, it must ensure that the direction is correct. General Orwen said at the Reagan Defense Forum held in Semivalle, California, "We are about to pass through a one-way gate. Before passing through this gate, we believe it is prudent to first look at the threat arc, see how the 'Next Generation Air Dominance' program can integrate with other capabilities of the Air Force, and whether the integrated capabilities can respond to and surpass the threat." Republican Congressman Rob Whitman, chairman of the Tactical Air Force and Ground Forces Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee, said that it is correct for the Air Force to raise these "tricky questions" before the "Next Generation Air Dominance" program goes too far and give the incoming administration a chance to plan the way forward. He said that this will help avoid establishing a "next-generation air superiority" program platform that cannot properly respond to future threats. Whitman said, "In the past, we made decisions about various platforms, and the process of turning this capability into reality sometimes lasted for years. By the time it was put into use, the threat had already changed." Whitman said that the Air Force is still considering how the "Next Generation Air Dominance" program platform can cooperate with collaborative fighter jets and next-generation air refueling systems. According to reports, since the end of the election, Trump's prominent advisers Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswami have been disdainful of the idea of building more manned fighter jets and have stated that the military should focus on drones. Whitman said that in the short term, manned fighter jets will be necessary for the military, but in the long run, unmanned platforms will play a greater role, especially in the context of rapid technological development. The question is, how did this transformation happen Whitman said, "We won't go from having a fleet of F-35, B-21, B-52, and F-15EX to everything being unmanned aerial vehicles. But the cognitive curve is how we incorporate drones into it." General Orwen agreed that drones will play a key role in future wars, and he believed that the military needs to strike a balance between manned and unmanned platforms. The direction of the future lies in the most effective human-machine cooperation, "Orwin said." We can take the idea of drones or unmanned combat to the extreme, but war will always be a human behavior