Hypersonic bombers, nuclear powered flying wings with directed energy weapons, swarm of ultra stealth unmanned electronic warehouses armed with microwaves to tactically fry the crap out of the enemy's electronic infrastructure, etc. The future looks great, ain't it? Just like back then, we thought we will have 700 ATF and equal amount of NATF for complete domination of the sky both land and sea while thousands of ultra stealthy ATA bomb the crap out of any target on enemy's territory. Now, the only thing out of that vision is the 183 f-22 deployed, while the rest will be handled by the compromised low-end mule of the f-35 (don't misunderstand, I'm a strong supporter of the f-35 by the way). Yes, the end of the cold war is a big factor, but no one would deny that the ATA was a disaster of a program with unrealistic goals, while the ATF was a better disaster because it at least had a prototype competition.