Incidentally, back a few posts Nick was on about the fuselage re-design which
had to be redesigned to make it fit for modern military standards
I thought it had to be re-designed because the project office didn't like the sources we used for Al-Lith?
Once the aircraft was being re-drawn in less esoteric materials, all sorts of extras were added (production improvements + spec changes). Hardly a re-design for crashworthiness.
I'd admit there are improvements which will still be made for improving the latter, but it's compliant as is (with survivors to attest to that, as per ZH844's post, including at least one US citzen).
Nimby