SpaceX has better and cheaper rockets. I don't think they are exceptionally profiting from a "buy American" effect. For the F-35 program, it contains a lot of

SpaceX has better and cheaper rockets. I don't think they are exceptionally profiting from a "buy American" effect. For the F-35 program, it contains a lot of technology which can't be found anywhere else in the world, and much of that technology was funded by the US government. For all the ridicule the project got, the corresponding projects in Russia and China are even worse off... If anything, the F-35 program is overpriced because there are no reasonable adversaries.