What would have happened to the pilot after ejecting from their fighter jet?

In 25 years, there will be even more advanced platforms that will take the doctrine of the US Air Force and others into the era of strategy that leverages a system-of-systems approach. This concept of aerial combat will see bombers paired with 5th-gens and drone swarms in a massive fleet of both manned and autonomous aircraft working together.

Since the US-Israeli strikes on Iran began last Saturday, one aircraft has played a critical and lethal role: the F-35 Lightning II, otherwise known as the F-35. The “F” stands for “Fighter” and the 35 signifies its place in the US military’s ...

Image Credit: Moonhunterofindia - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0/Wiki Commons. Walk into any fighter wing hangar, and you can feel it before you see it. The smell of fuel, the faint echo of turbines, the way a jet’s nose seems to point right through you.

Even more to this end, air forces around the world are increasingly removing the pilot from the cockpit and relying on unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones. Although most of these automated combat aircraft are now small-scale and simple, the race to achieve the first true 'loyal wingman' fully autonomous fighter jet is well underway.