I personally feel we have two chances of making a profit from this aircraft and they are 'zero' and 'none'. I do hope I am talking tosh but I will not be holding my breath.
Tongue in cheek remark:
If we are building the rear part of this state of the art aircraft then are we responsible for this....
The arrester hook issue has been reported. In the first round of tests, the hook failed to catch the wire once. The QLR notes that tests of a minimal modification - a reprofiled hook with different damper settings - set for April "represent only the initial stages leading into full carrier suitability demonstrations."
Studies are already underway of changing the hook's location - the basic problem is that the designers put the hook closer behind the main landing gear than that of any current or recent Navy aircraft, even the tailless X-47B - but that will have "major, direct primary and secondary structural impacts".