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You don't know what you're talking about.

- 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.

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F117 and Have Blue were both developed there, or at least tested. It’s been a while since I read Skunk Works. Maybe they’re not there right this second, but I took the comment to be giving some examples of secret things that have happened there, not necessarily things there right this second, because we really can’t know what’s happening there this second because I assume that’s secret.

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.

Happened where? At "range 72"? That was what the comment I was replying to claimed.

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.

FWIW I thought your comment was aggressive and borderline rude. Being right and being polite are not mutually exclusive.

>I don't believe I was particularly aggressive.

"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.

To be fair, I did look at this in the best light possible and took your overly aggressive tone and hanging your hat on a scriveners error like putting a “2” instead of whatever other number when it was clear what the poster was talking about to be an EQ gap on your part and not malice.

I guess I didn't write that comment very well and I have no idea what the current money toilet out there is. The Soviet Union collapsed 30 years ago, SDI was canceled 30 years ago, the F117 was retired and hasn't flown at TTR for 30 years, and that goofy drone was public disclosed 30 years ago.

> It's a whole other ball game now. Hint: a player just landed this week.

What?

He is referencing the "secret" space plane

https://qz.com/secret-us-space-plane-china-xi-biden-cold-war...

Indeed, I am. I suppose I should have just included a news link. Thanks!

I assume this: https://www.npr.org/2022/11/12/1136308108/space-force-plane-...

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