There are tremendous levels of Waste, Fraud and Abuse at the Pentagon. I hope they aren’t trying to slip a $35B bribe over to Elon. Because I don’t think that’s going to work.
Rather too much SpaceX hype.
The Delta II had 100 consecutive successful launches of payload into orbit.
Falcon 9 has a long way to go to be the more reliable rocket in history. The stats for it are never quoted as Falcon 9. Always as Falcon “family”. You only need one partial failure to destroy the pursuit of “100 consecutive”. It has 470 launches . . . **in the family** but no one variant has achieved the 100 consecutive record put out there by Delta II.
Delta II stats are carefully quoted as the specific rocket variant. There are other Delta rockets that could be added. It completed its run in 2018 with the 100th consecutive success.