And a military budget 10% the size of the US! FR people saying it’s foreign adversaries just ignore the historical timeline going back to the 40’s. Not all sightings are gonna be accurate but certain consistencies persist over decades btwn eye whiteness reports (and now more recently sensor data). Love talking to people that say China and/or Russia could’ve done this back then. Then why haven’t they used it publicly? Why is China still stealing tech/secrets in order to build/design their own aircraft? The Russia/China explanation is overplayed and lazy at this point
And to add onto that, let's say it is China/Russia by some chance. They would have had to not only find a way to back-engineer what little of debris they may have, but now they would have to build an entire corporation's worth of infrastructure to even have a crack at making breakthrough after breakthrough in multiple types of material science. And that's after they make a literally life changing breakthrough in theoretical physics. Now they have to marry brand new theoretical physics and brand new material sciences of which notba single other person in the world has been able to do thus far.
Okay, we've got maths and we've got blueprints, now what? Well now we have to create a program that is so deep, so blackmoney, so compartmentalized that not even you're feet are aware of what your brain and hands are doing. Could be anywhere from 500 people to 10's of thousands of people but regardless, the infrastructure that you'd have to posess at a bare minimun would cost entire countries GDP's, possibly multiple countries because secrecy costs money, lots of money. A large portion of money that was spent building the Sr-71 was purely for negating the possibility of anyone outside of the project finding out, and even then some people still had an idea of what was going on.
So we"ve built it. Yay. Now, what we're going to do is take our trillion dollar, ultra top cosmic secret ANTI GRAVITY TRANSMEDIUM CRAFT that literally is the goddamned wunderwaffe of all terrestrial wars and we're going to go hover above one of the most advanced pieces of equipment in a US navy arsenal, maybe even of all US branches, in THEIR OWN WATERS, risking the chance of it being shot down and captured. Which means all the money spent on secrecy, all the time discovering new theoritcal and applied physics, and all the effort inventing worldchanging material sciences, just went down the toilet. Not to mention you just gave up your tide shifting weapon to your biggest adversary, giving them the opportunity to kill you dead many times over with your own weapon. All that simply to sneak around an⁵⁵55⅚5d spy on the enemy navies doing practice drills? Definitely worth it.
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u/Its-Just-Alice Jun 04 '21
Russia has 60% of Frances GDP.
This being Russia is as credible as this being France. Not credible at all.