If the US military has game changing, society shocking technology it's not going to freaking patent it and make it public. It serves no purpose to do so.
I agree! But they patented something! So we’re all asking ourselves what the deal is? Why the patent?? Is it some troll head fake?
Because the patent is probably meaningless, just like 99% of patents filed these days. But it costs so little to patent stuff so they just throw literally everything at the wall. There's endless patents on technology that doesn't exist or can't exist or makes no sense.