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Re:DARPA has caught a Gremlin drone in midair by regularfry on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @09:21AM (#29174895)
A rough rule of thumb from watching stealth aircraft development and the subsequent retrospective stories over the years: what you don't know is about 15 years ahead of what you do. It might be that things have compressed since then, and it might be that stealth was always a special case, but it wouldn't surprise me if the absolute cutting edge is still that far ahead in some areas.
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Re:DARPA has caught a Gremlin drone in midair by LogonType10 on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @12:49PM (#29177710)
This is the expectation, and the reality is that the government still uses Windows XP. Stealth tech and other military signature detection/evasion techs are probably just exceptional.
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Re:DARPA has caught a Gremlin drone in midair by Wonnk13 on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @03:21PM (#29180141)
great point- I think it's strongly correlated to budget. JSOC? probably 10 years ahead due to unlimited/black budget.

The average gs-13 commuting to the Pentagon? Bottom of the barrel tech.

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Re:DARPA has caught a Gremlin drone in midair by LogonType10 on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @07:12PM (#29182753)
From your profile--do you mean hacking in the software development sense or the security sense?
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Re:DARPA has caught a Gremlin drone in midair by Wonnk13 on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @08:10PM (#29183241)
in the for-fun / i'm such a shitty person i can't believe i hacked this together sense :)

the rest is... classified. but quite boring.

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