Wartime procurement demands throughput and survivability over unit cost. A launcher that survives to fire again is worth more than a new one sitting in a depot.

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Four airframes covering that much sky is a coverage problem first, a missile problem second. The magazine gate is real, but so is sortie rate: sixteen jets still need basing, spares and crews to keep a substantial number airborne.

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Fair, and the "better than nothing" part is doing real work here. The interim fix isnt the airframes, its the missiles and the deep strike on the launch sites. Waiting on jets while glide bombs fly is the wrong clock to watch.

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However it feels like that hope for the future began to fade around the time Putin came to power in 1999 and it completely died when Trump came to power in 2016. Today I do not know anybody who generally has hope for humanity's future anymore.

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I recently watched about 20 episodes of Star Trek The Next Generation over the summer. It was fascinating for me to relive how optimistic humanity (or at least Americans) were about the future in the 1990s.

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