re: #28 steve_davis

it also lets them know if they mess with any more oil tankers, we can easily drop something nasty on them with a negligible margin of error.

Yeah, since it’s obvious that shithead didn’t write this tweet (that is, it didn’t start with “wow!” and end with a bunch of self-glorifying dickwaving) this all is likely to be deliberate as well. A reason I could see for a snapshot of a screen is that it would fuck up a lot of the artifacts that a digital transfer would have, so foreign intelligence would have much more difficulty figuring out the detailed capabilities of the platform. And yes, it does announce that we can fly shit wherever we want without you knowing about it, so you had better be careful. I seem to remember Israel announcing that they had an F35 tootling around Tehran without any resistance, so it wouldn’t be the first time.

As far as declassification goes, the SECDEF, head of intelligence agency, or the yam could allow and declassify the picture as commander/Primary Classification Authority.