In correction, Mr. Chair, to your last point, the newest fifth-generation aircraft has only one engine on it.
The facts state themselves. Since 1991, the U.S. has not had engine failure on a single-engine F-16. The technology of where we're at... It's our considered opinion, notwithstanding your comments, that the decision to deploy the F-18s in NORAD had nothing to do with one or two engines, I suspect, but I could perhaps look and get that answer to you. The fact of the matter is that most of the U.S. F-16s are not involved in NORAD. Even in the south they use other aircraft for it, so I suspect they're using NORAD assets in replacing that.
The facts stand for themselves about engine reliability with one-engine aircraft, so I have no reason to ever say that I would require that replacement to have two engines, because I can't. And as I said to you, that was not a mandatory requirement in the initial F-18 competition in 1981. It may well be a rated requirement. Perhaps we'll have a requirement that says that if you have two engines, you'll get more points, but on the basis of the facts as they stand right now, I wouldn't support that position.