No doubt there's something being done at the Skunkworks that'll make the Raptor look like a bi-plane...
I'd put money on a drone that will do things that a human pilot couldn't physically endure if he was in it.
"There is no royal road to this heavy surf-fishing. With all the appliances for comfort experience can suggest, there is a certain amount of hard work to be done and exposure to be bourne as a part of the price of success." From "Striped Bass," Scribner's Magazine, 1881.