What V-22 admission? Are you disparaging the Marine Corps...punk.:p
We never had a chance to build cookie cutter plants here because every plant built was to a different set of rules. The US powers that were, kept changing the rules.
France set a design and charged ahead, just making minor upgrades instead up major redesigns as they went.
Of course that may be why the french people are so wacky but that wouldn't be a problem for the Aussies.
