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no lie, the entire intelligence apparatus and compendium of information regarding friendly systems is basically a bunch of individual 80-something year old men who are the only ones who know every fucking element down to the molecular level about a singular specialized engine system of one of our most advanced aircraft, because back in 1972, they attended a course taught by Kelly Johnson himself, and their career consists of sitting in some musty back corner basement office somewhere in southern Nebraska answering the odd phone call when someone in CENTCOM needs to update a flight stat for recent publishing, and they have all the information in a living record of the Electric F118-GE-100 turbofan engines that power the B2. When they die, this will all be lost and some poor young mischling zogbot will have to go down there and sort through 50 years of collected information about this system which no one has cared about until wartime.

Someday I think there will be 300 year old B2s and the people maintaining them will have forgotten how to build them. It'll be like a cargo cult of aeronautics engineering.

>the god from skunkworks made black flying boom boom machine