Ryan Bodenheimer

You do run the risk of exposing it to China and Russia.

I'm just throwing that out there.

Yeah, I mean, I think it is.

It's kind of just something that you don't do.

You know, there's a big respect in the fighter jet world for anything that could endanger anybody's life.

You know, if there's an advanced technology that we don't want anybody to know about, it's like a football team and a playbook, right?

Like, you don't want that other team fighting that playbook.

So unless you're really heavily involved in that program itself, then you just don't talk about it.

And there's, you know, there's certain areas where you can talk about things.

There's areas where you can't.

I think the Air Force, you know, they're maybe a little overprotective, but for good reason, right?

I mean, if this technology is going to save thousands of aviators lives and, you know, be an amazing deterrence against somebody, you don't want the other team having that playbook.

Maybe that's why I got the callsign NEO.

Somehow they just inserted that into the matrix.

So they're like, we're not only gonna send them back, we're gonna give them the callsign NEO as well.

But yeah, it is interesting.

And privately, I definitely have thoughts where I'm like, oh, I wonder about that.

I wonder about this.

Like I'm a human, I love aviation.

I still have that little kid inside that lights up every time I see a fighter jet.