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Originally Posted by Bubblehead Nuke
The devil is how to give someone an understanding of the engineering that goes into a sub without 'crossing' the line'.
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As a general rule, my experience is that most of the engineering and science behind a given process is unclassified. I've never encountered anything purely engineering that was classified, except for things like how to manufacture radar absorbant materials and what not. The engineering of unique technologies that give the US a significant technological edge over the rest of the world are generally classified.
The laws of physics don't change across borders. It's no big secret how a nuclear reactor works, for example, or how beamforming works. You can find beautiful books on all of that. All of it is unclassified. Heck, we actually gave the technology to build nuclear reactors to Iran under that Atoms for Peace program in the 1950s under Eisenhower.
The problems pop up when people say, "here's how we do it specifically on this vessel, and oh, btw, here's some performance numbers."