• SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    That’s fair, though we don’t know how close the sketch “artist” actually saw the thing. I’m just saying it ain’t terribly far off.

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      12 days ago

      If your job is to inform the Joint Chiefs that the ruskies have a bomber with a canopy and ejector seat, two big honking jet engines and a tail gunner, this’ll do.

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        12 days ago

        I mean, maybe? Never worked intelligence but I assume there’s a shitload of extrapolation and assumption. Also realistically they’ll paint it as a 12th Gen aircraft and demand 50 billion more funding to close the capabilities gap.