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> What's so amazing is that...

You, for better and for worse, are thinking like an honest person. Who wants to actually produce a badly-needed product.

Please try to understand that General Dynamics managements' ethics and motivations bear no resemblance whatever to yours. And that "incompetence" is just not the right word for this kind of situation.

EDIT:

> ...with two years of effort...

Two years since the factory "was brought online". There was another two years before that, setting it up.