When I was at the Five-Sided Rathole twenty-odd years ago, a fellow or two told me that whatever we currently had deployed was obsolete by the time it even saw daylight. They had the Next Gen ready to be rolled out when applicable, and the 2nd Gen at least in the R&D phase. By their thumbnail, the space shuttle was an Edsel, while the new Mustangs were sitting in the garage. This could be some sort of bleeding edge tech that’s being beta tested against our current pilots and hardware, without anyone but the uppermost echelons ever knowing it.
Talked of same twenty years ago at 7 levels down
I wonder only one condition these days and it is chicoms