I have not read the entire thread but this putting all our eggs in one basket is a mistake, IMO. When a defect surfaces your entire Air Force, Navy and Marine air squadrons are grounded or fly in defective aircraft until someone can isolate why they are crashing all of a sudden.
In WWII when this happened they could always use another plane. Even until recently they could use another plane. Now what will they do? There is only one company making the war plane, either Lockheed-Martin-Vought or McDonnel-Douglas-Lockheed or whichever of the only two companies get the contract.
