Nonfic-Jen: It works with boats, too, but somehow it makes them look dumb as hell instead.

me: idk what to do while sick youtube: do you want to watch an hour long professionally animated deep dive into explaining what makes the lockheed sr-71 blackbird so cool me: wellllllllll shucks i reckon i could be inclined

like dude how'd they do all that shit without CAD? that's so fucking cool

No CAD vs CAD

both are incredibly beautiful to me

Never beating allegations, etc, so forth.

BUT THEY ARE REALLY BEAUTIFUL LIKE GODDDDDDD LOOK AT THEM

I got to see a Stealth bomber up close at Nellis AFB during an air show, and the pilot explained how the design enables it to avoid radar detection. I’d assumed it was some sort of magic anti-radar box but it’s just geometry. What an incredible accomplishment of engineering and design.

It works with boats, too, but somehow it makes them look dumb as hell instead.

Wasn't it found out this boat super sucked to drive and was way too costly and inefficient to use

Every time I see a story about one of these stealth boats it's like "stealth boat canceled"

I just remember finding out about them in the mediocre James Bond movie that sort of had Steve Jobs/Rupert Murdoch as a villain, but in hindsight he was maybe more like Musk so the boats looking like cybertrucks is funny.

Guess you could say the project was... scrapped.

I love this totally doesn't make me angry because the thing was worth billions

Only one was made it was ~only~ $50 million www.businessinsider.com/the-military...

The Military Sold This Advanced Prototype Stealth Ship To Scrap For A 95% Losswww.businessinsider.com

It was a demonstration, you can see echoes of it in modern warships, not nearly as many right angles, for example.

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