U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has defended his previous comment that the F-35C will be the last manned strike fighter his service will buy or fly.

By Erik Hildebrandt [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

“Unmanned is the future,” Mabus said in a speech at the National Press Club. “If we don’t keep up in this, if we don’t lead on this, we’re very certainly going to be bypassed … because we’re not the only ones working on this.”

Source: Alert 5