I just love how you guys insist on ignoring reality and truth in your desperate quest to malign the aircraft and its designers.
You've been told repeatedly, and shown reports to verify, that the USN is who fouled up the tail-hook design by giving bad data to both LockMart (whose last carrier aircraft was the successful S-3 Viking, first flight 1972) and Northrup-Grumman (X-47B).
Both companies designed their tailhook to work with what the USN told them would work, and both companies had to redesign their hook set-up when it was learned the USN's data was FUBAR.
None of the tailhook's designers were in any way "muppets", but you insist on libeling them in defiance of reality.