- Secret aircraft and drones (F117, HavBlue)
- Testing of Soviet aircraft and equipment (Red Flag)
- Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) projects, such as laser tagging of satellites
It's also a active USAF bombing range used by Nellis AFB.
- What is "range 72"? I know of a Range 75 and 76. I haven't heard of a Range 72.
- The F-117 and HAVE BLUE aircraft, while similar looking, are substantially different in both design and size. And HAVE BLUE doesn't exist anymore. Both crashed.
- Red Flag is an USAF exercise. You probably meant the Red Hats squadron.
- SDI/Star Wars, as civilians know it, is dead and was never really a thing in the first place. It's a whole other ball game now. Hint: a player just landed this week.
What?
https://qz.com/secret-us-space-plane-china-xi-biden-cold-war...
Otherwise the comment is unnecessarily aggressive for no reason, and I think I detect a tone of condescension, which is unwarranted.
This is why I downvoted.
F-117 and HAVE BLUE testing primarily occurred at Area 51, not some place called "range 72". They were developed and built at Lockheed in California.
I don't believe I was particularly aggressive. The commenter posted a bunch of incorrect information. I called them out. That's how it should work. I see far worse on HN when it comes to programming language/editor wars.
"You don't know what you're talking about" is aggressive and rude; like you're calling them stupid. "Actually, I don't think that's right", along with some, "Can you clarify?" is not aggressive, and welcomes them into a conversation.
>I called them out. That's how it should work.
There's a way to do that constructively. See above.