If this design goes anywhere I'll eat my hat, feel free to quote me on that. It would take an act of Congress to fund the R&D necessary to prove this machine worthy of the minimally unique mission profiles it offers. It has been said that "anything can be done- but at what cost?" The V-22 Osprey and F-35 are the only novel designs Congress has had as much interest in lately, and you see how controversial those are. UAVs and drones with roles for missions this machine could cover already exist.