Chris,
My nephew works for Lockheed. Black stuff, I do not even know what he is working on now and stopped asking a while ago.
He was working on a drone project years ago, like the ones used in Afgan and Iraq now. All TS but I knew the name. Aviation leak published some very good info about the project. I called Tony at home and said "hey, I heard that the Aquila is such and such wide, and tall" and stopped. He replied "Uncle Joe, this is an uncontrolled telephone line and I cannot confirm nor deny anything you have just said" ...
I started laughing and told him about the Aviation Week article and he calmed down a bit but he still could not comment. He is (we all were) under the rules that govern classified information and could care less if its in print or on the internet, we cannot discuss it until its cleared.
These days information is released at certain times by the Govt for a reason. They do it to let the other countries and enemies know something for a reason. Pubs like aviation leak and various newspapers are given information to publish. Hope it scares the hell out of them....
Mike,
Wonder if they would have something like the Cobra helo's where the pilot has a sight on his helmet and the weapon fires where-ever the pilot or gunner is looking? No need to tell us if its classified but that is neat on the helo where the pilot looks at you or something, AND THE CANNON MOVES AND POINTS AT EXACTLY THE SAME PLACE. Always kinda liked that little feature...
JoeA