"In recent years, Aviation Week has become somewhat more conservative about its coverage -- it's a little disappointing in some ways, as now they are often the last place to publish something -- but they are very rarely mistaken about a scoop like this."
"For them to describe this Blackstar system in this explicit detail, I am certain that all their ducks are in a row -- and barcoded."
Actually, that is not true. The author of this Aviation Week article, Scott Wilson, has previously published articles claiming that the USAF had a triangular shaped hypersonic nuclear bomber capable of dropping over 100 nuclear warheads, and that the USAF had a triangular shaped stealth reconnaissance aircraft called the TR-3 Manta. Both of those stories were wrong. Both dated from the early 1990s. Aviation Week never printed a retraction of those stories.
In other words, they are _not_ conservative about this. They speculate wildly just like Popular Science does. And they get stuff wrong.
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"In recent years, Aviation Week has become somewhat more conservative about its coverage -- it's a little disappointing in some ways, as now they are often the last place to publish something -- but they are very rarely mistaken about a scoop like this." "For them to describe this Blackstar system in this explicit detail, I am certain that all their ducks are in a row -- and barcoded." Actually, that is not true. The author of this Aviation Week article, Scott Wilson, has previously published articles claiming that the USAF had a triangular shaped hypersonic nuclear bomber capable of dropping over 100 nuclear warheads, and that the USAF had a triangular shaped stealth reconnaissance aircraft called the TR-3 Manta. Both of those stories were wrong. Both dated from the early 1990s. Aviation Week never printed a retraction of those stories. In other words, they are _not_ conservative about this. They speculate wildly just like Popular Science does. And they get stuff wrong.