For the first time, the Pentagon has released a 30-year plan for warplane purchases. The plan includes several notional airplanes that haven’t really been widely discussed before. These are mostly conjectural programs, with no firm requirements and, as yet, no real funding. But they’re useful placeholders until our needs and resources become clearer in coming years:
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