What is the most exotic military technology that USA has?

originally posted by: BASSPLYR
a reply to: Wide-Eyes

Yeah youre going to see a lot more of the extremely silent very fast aircraft in the future.

Why do you say that?

a reply to: TheOnlyBilko

they already exist

a reply to: DirtyBizzler

Care to share which announcement you're referring to?

a reply to: DichroChrono



Maybe something like this perhaps...

blogs.discovermagazine.com...-IbgA

There are silent craft that look like this.

originally posted by: RadioRobert
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Your 20' rod of tungsten weighs 18,000 lbs or so. It'd fit on a Falcon 9. Or better piggyback them with commsats on a HLLV. We've never had launches that "failed to achieve intended orbit", eh? Just another bit of space junk...
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I don't think we've spent the money. But I can certainly see the usefulness if we had the budget.

Probably nothing, but I just read this blip in the news which reminded me of this conversation.

A highly classified U.S. government satellite appears to have been totally lost after being taken into space by a recent launch from Elon Musk's SpaceX, according to a new report.

www.cnbc.com...

Only interesting because Space Track has listed the payload which they don't do for objects which don't attain orbit, photos exist of the upper stage venting at the right time and place, and SpaceX claims launch was nominal, and the NRO firmly denies they had anything to do with the payload.

Plenty of alternative explanations exist, but raised an eyebrow when I read it.