Elon Musk says military drones will outlive fighter jets

Point Bridge Capital CEO Hal Lambert says Elon Musk is the Thomas Edison of our generation. SpaceX founder Elon Musk expects unmanned drones will outlive fighter jets in the U.S. Air Force. "It's not [that] I want the future to be this," the billionaire entrepreneur added during a fireside chat about the future of air defense with Gen. Jay Raymond, chief of space operations for the Space Force, at the 2020 Air Warfare Symposium on Friday. "The fighter jet era has passed." The founder of electric-car maker Tesla re-emphasized the point on Twitter when a platform user brought up his statement that the new Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter should have a competitor.