What's happening is that a seriously talented and hard working international team are doing their damnedest to deliver a major step forward in combat capability. And have been doing so from the start. They are not numpties. This powered lift stuff is seriously hard. They know what they are doing. A little respect might, once in a while, be offered.
I have worked with very clever people on projects that failed simply because they were too hard. To criticize this project is not to imply that the people who are working on it aren't extremely able.