So did they fly it? Well no, this was on a test-stand. It’s a step, but the problem is that our defense establishment is stuck under a horribly bureaucratic acqusition process while the Chinese are innovating the way we used to innovate back before we won the Cold War and turned ourselves into a puddle of bureaucrats drowning in their own irrelevance. The Deep State isn’t just somewhere. It is everywhere in everything that the government does.
“It’s a step, but the problem is that our defense establishment is stuck under a horribly bureaucratic acquisition process while the Chinese are innovating the way we used to innovate back before we won the Cold War”
Any word on whether the proper level of DEI was used in this development? If not, I don’t see how the DOD will be permitted to use this technology.