Whatever they reveal today they’ve had for 20 years and what they hint at they’ve had for 10 years. They’d been talking about space planes, scramjets and ramjets long before I left the service in 1983.
But now we have the technology. Back then, this stuff was all theoretical.They probably have it now in secret air bases such as Edwards and Groom Lake.
Remember nthe old Discoverer program? Originally publicized as resarch satellites. With recoverable capsules. Those were our first generation reconsats.