Chapter 722: Resting on Past Achievements
“Mr. Lynch, have you seen today’s newspaper?”
Inside the train carriage, a sergeant suddenly asked. Lynch, who was reading, put down his book and looked at him, signaling him to continue.
The sergeant gathered his thoughts and voiced the question that had puzzled him all morning. “The joint military exercise just ended, and Shepford Marine released the specs for the Sea Wolf II submarine. Isn’t that…”
He hesitated. “Too arrogant?”
“What I mean is, if we have new military equipment plans, we should keep them secret—not publish them where anyone buying a newspaper can see critical details!”
He waved the newspaper, which featured, besides a blurry design sketch, very detailed submarine specs.
For ordinary people, these were just numbers with no value. But for foreign military research labs, this data exposed the Federation’s current tech strength and served as a beacon.
For example, if a country planned to build a sub capable of 10 knots underwater but the Federation’s specs showed 12 knots—a 20% difference—that was a crushing tech gap.
That country might redesign a new sub to at least match or get close to the Federation’s speed to compete.