What is the accomplished beyond bragging rights with those flights?
That is meant as a real question. I am interested in what they are doing.
I am too!
That would require a FOI request, and I suspect that the answers won't be forthcoming. Not for decades.
It's a sad statement for the free citizens of a Republic that we can't even know where our taxdollars are going. I understand the need for some secrecy, but there should be a ten year window. The F-111 was a twenty year old program before we knew about it.
We know of the USAF was playing around with a mini Space Shuttle for years. Ben Rich who took over from Kelly Johnson at the Skunkworks had made statements to the effect that we can "take ET back home now"...
Taken in combination with the hacked info detailing ship to ship transfers "non-terrestrial" USAF officers (meaning humans not on the planet - not bug eyed aliens) to vessels such as the U.S.S.S. Hillenkoetter and U.S.S.S Lamay, one has to figure that either there is a huge disinformation program going on, and billions upon billions of black budget money is being spent on blow and hookers, or that there is a "there" there - namely a military space program that is 50 years more advanced than anything you can imaging we have right now.
* awaits the usual braying clown posse of ignorami to show up with lame references to tinfoil and booze *