Originally Posted by 3toe

I was talking to a friend of my son's this past weekend. He has a near genius IQ, is finishing his 4th degree, and has been working and about to start full time at Lockheed Martin in defense technology. We got to talking about current defense technology, etc. He said something that made a lot of sense. He said our goal (USA), is to stay 5 years ahead of everyone in defense technology. If one of our brainiacs creates a new technology that is deemed to be 40 yrs. advanced, the technology is kept/developed, but not deployed or used immediately. Thought being if it's shot down (drone, etc.), captured, etc. and the enemy reverse engineers it, then we have just advanced our enemies technology by 40 yrs. I'm assuming he knows what he is talking about. It makes sense. have no doubt our defense teams have created and developed some astounding technology that we would deem as other worldly. If you were living in 1945 and first heard of the atom bomb and its capability, I bet, you would think aliens gave us that technology too. Then again, maybe they did. lol.



I’ve heard similar and also other business used similar methods to roll out their newest latest and greatest to cover cost of development. Digital photography for one with sensor development. Like skinny mentioned, what’s really available is incredible.

Any of the secret operators to the likes of seals etc…. Probably have equipment we can’t imagine. Some of it leaks out on those podcast like mentioned

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