Why wouldn’t they tell the public at this point? And I agree. This seems like a rather long exercise and a bit risky to leave all this equipment just hanging there. Don’t these things need to charge?
No charging for awhile with the new battery tech.


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You can bet that anything we see as being new tech,
the military has already been there when It could be applied to an advantage.
Their versions would be much, much more bad-ass.