Comment by AnimalMuppet

> We don't want "good enough", we want weapons that are fully capable and best-in-class.

OK...

> We should first solve for why we've allowed massive scope creep in the development of our flagship fighters, and why that scope creep has come at the cost of hundreds of billions of dollars to our nation.

Because we want best-in-class, and best-in-class means "better than everything else that currently exists", and that's really hard.