I mean, these things do exist. There are always tons of big and small tech projects floating around in the special operations community. Cutting-edge sets of hybrid night/thermal vision. Classified helicopters. Hand-built rifled with custom cartridges. Classified medical tech. Advanced fixed wing aircraft with unique capabilities. Advanced dive gear. So on.
"Big Army" doesn't see that stuff for decades, if ever, and mostly never due to cost. And I'm not even getting into classified submarine and nuclear tech, fixed wing drones and aircraft flying at night out of known test facilities, etc.
There's tons of actually advance tech out there in military circles.
Yeah. The DOD is enormous and definitely has your boring every day stuff, but tons of skunk works as r&d. just not very public. An organization that big has all kinds of nooks and crannies, so isn’t really that monolithic.
"Big Army" doesn't see that stuff for decades, if ever, and mostly never due to cost. And I'm not even getting into classified submarine and nuclear tech, fixed wing drones and aircraft flying at night out of known test facilities, etc.
There's tons of actually advance tech out there in military circles.