They looked at me like an idiot when I asked if they needed to scan my id, everyone just walked through with only the facial scan. This will probably vary by airport a lot.

Not anymore it seems.

It’s a replacement for either your ticket or passport being scanned.

If you have the discipline to only toss in a hundred and then use that to play around with or contribute 20$ a month from your job then you can do that stuff. But it’s not easy if you’re someone that always goes all in.

Yeah, it doesn’t make sense because even in the article it talks about other nations already having it and china trying to rollout faster.

F35 is guaranteed to be better than a “6th generation” Chinese plane and they can be upgraded anyway. And it’s actually very successful now with a very cheap per plane cost.

It’s more about sensors and communication, there’s no reason you can’t have f35 use drones and stuff. But the better plane will see and target the enemy first. And it can operate without GPS. In other words it’s better to have 3000 f35s flying missions plus a bunch of drones. Being able to deliver a lot of firepower first is a huge deal.