Foreign Materiel Exploitation: An Evolving, Multi-Agency Effort to Recover and Reverse-Engineer Foreign Aerospace Tech

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Joseph Trevithick and Tyler Rogoway note that Foreign Materiel Exploitation is a secret, multi‑agency effort by the United States and its allies to recover and study foreign aircraft, missiles, space hardware, and components—often from crash sites or markets—and reverse‑engineer their capabilities, with roots dating from World War II and the Cold War and growing digital sophistication, while there is no public evidence of alien artifacts.