How good is this L.M F-18

I see amongst all our messes currently ongoing in the UK at the moment, we've just put in a huge trillion Dollar order for a whole bunch of F-18's (various models)from the U.S. company Lockhead-Martin

Given that these things were the first to be designed/built/AND programmed and tested by Lockhead-Martin directly, and there are already questions being asked as to the wisdom of that decision in the U.S.(orinarily they like a separate company to do the programming)
How good are they ?

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Sicarium · 46-50, M

Lockhead Martin has been around for a long time. You also seem confused on the programming aspect. Not sure where you got that from. but would you buy a Ford and expect the ECU programming to be done by Toyota?

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

@Sicarium it was written on a wikipedia document i saw earlier.
And it IS normal procedure to not normally make one company responsible for ALL aspects of a complete defence project.

Sicarium · 46-50, M

@Picklebobble2 You're playing word games. A fighter aircraft overall isn't one defense project. It's several. Lockhead Martin handles the airplane. The various weapons companies handle the weapons systems. Same for electronics companies and the comms gear. Lockhead Martin (or Boeing actually for the F/A-18) doesn't handle the programming for the AIM-9 missiles, but it does handle the computer programming of the plane itself.