Half of What the Soviets Knew About U.S. Stealth Tech, They Got From One Reporter - War Is Boring

Half of What the Soviets Knew About U.S. Stealth Tech, They Got From One Reporter - War Is Boring

• Bill Sweetman’s articles were a Cold War intel bonanza

The Americans were up to something, and the Soviets knew it...

In the late 1970s and early ‘80s, the U.S. military was quietly developing sophisticated stealth technology meant to help aircraft evade detection by radar and other sensors...
Soviet intelligence agents had a pretty good idea what was going on...

• They knew about stealth because they routinely read and translated American trade magazines and hobbyist books. 
• Specifically, the reporting of one man, Bill Sweetman...