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Originally Posted by Muta
I think I once read somewhere in Jane's Defence Weekly that the military is now usually about 30 years ahead in technological capability of the public's knowledge with many of their black projects. Famously, Lockheed's (sexy AF) F-117 was conceived in 1975, flown for the first time in 1981, and only became public knowledge in 1988; it had already been airborne for seven years by the time people became aware of it. Just a classic example of this delay in what's out there and what's actually being engineered / produced.
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I've heard similar things and believe it to be true. In fact, I tend to think the gap has probably gotten a lot bigger in the past 40-50 years. Just given how much technology the has advanced in general over that time (steeper than a linear progression) combined with information age acceleration, I would not be surprised if hidden or secret technology is several generations more advanced and increasing. Maybe even hundreds of years more advanced.