Quote Originally Posted by Ken White View Post
The change has not been that speedy -- our failure to pay attention and adapt has simply made it seem so. There's nothing around today that wasn't known or seen 15 to 20 years or more ago.
I've got a '74 Jane's Weapon Systems and I found many demonstrators for today's hot technologies in it (including UAVs that were launching mavericks).

The only really new technologies are based primarily on the progress of microelectronics in the 90's. Almost all else in military tech seems to have been around for 30-140 years (140 years was for remote-control of vehicles, for example).