I can't help but wonder if what we're seeing with these really big-ticket military systems (F-35, V-22 Osprey, the Littoral Combat Ship, etc.) is pretty much th

I can't help but wonder if what we're seeing with these really big-ticket military systems (F-35, V-22 Osprey, the Littoral Combat Ship, etc.) is pretty much the same thing that happened to NASA and U.S. space exploration with the Space Shuttle. Basically you end up with programs that grow into beasts that either deprive their competitors of oxygen or subsume them (into an even bigger program with even more requirements) and become both too big to succeed and too big to fail at the same time.