The future will be dominated by drones?  Where have I heard that before?

Ohh yeah, the 1950's.  The whole reason why the Avro Arrow was cancelled was because the future was going to be dominated by missiles and fighter jobs were to be obsolete within 10 years time.

We then heard it again in the 1960's until Vietnam proved that notion to be totally false.  And again in the 1980's and 1990's until the various troubles in the Persian Gulf proved that to be wrong again and again.

Maybe at some point in the future manned fighter jets will become obsolete, but history is full of missed predictions about the imminent demise of manned fighter jets.