It seems like it would be an insanely huge task to start doing military contracts with a new supplier, get new parts, train servicemembers how to maintain the n

It seems like it would be an insanely huge task to start doing military contracts with a new supplier, get new parts, train servicemembers how to maintain the new planes, and deal with countless pieces of support equipment and infrastructure and software designed for one plane. Then again, I really have no idea -- perhaps there are so few commonalities between an F/A-18 and an F-35 that it's just as easy to switch to another vendor.