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Basic science is done in the open, but science relevant to military goals is still kept secret. For example, do you know how stealth fighter jets are made?
by est31 6y ago
Basic science is done in the open, but science relevant to military goals is still kept secret. For example, do you know how stealth fighter jets are made?
- HideousKojima 6y agoThere's actually quite a bit of information about the development of the F-117, as well as the science and math that made it possible: https://www.f117sfa.org/f117-development https://www.f117sfa.org/f117-development
- zandor 6y agoIt gets even better. The base of the research was deemed to be of no significant military or economic value by the USSR so it was published internationally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr_Ufimtsev#The_father_of_stealth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr_Ufimtsev#The_father_of_st...
- mabbo 6y agoBut how much of that information was available to the public in the 1970s? Sure, 40 years later its all out in the open, but that's because there's no longer a reason to keep it secret.