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eppur_se_muova

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12. That information is also very useful to the Navy, and that was probably used to justify the cost in the first place.

Reply to dalton99a (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2026, 10:25 PM

Jun 1

The Navy does NOT like to talk about why all that data is useful necessarily; they'd rather not let our rivals know what we are capable of, or give them clues about how they could screw things up. Perhaps some Uglican(s) on the Armed Services Committees could have some private conversations w/Trmp.

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