I notice you don't mention costs....
and asking pilots? Oldest trick in the book - give some snazzy new hardware to fast jet pilots and ask them what they think after a few months. Do you REALLY think he's going to say anything other than Fab/Superb/Amazing???
later you find all the flaws............ and it's not just the USA IIRC the Soviet Union landed themselves with a couple of turkeys by doing the same thing