lonelykimiko said:
That said, everything there is speculation. There is no way to know what really happens there. While I believe that Vlad is correct, you never know 😉 .
Eh, not everything. We know for certain that many of our technological advancements are made there, and that it is the only safe place to study, improve, and shelter our most prized findings, which is why it is a national and global secret.
Groom Lake is a staging ground for the efforts made by the base, and we can assume that a portion of the collective genius of Area 51 focusing particularly on anti-air/anti-ground counter resistance and interception. This is all to improve our militiary's black op capabilities so that we can make tactical offensive and defensive strikes under the radar without tipping our hand to the enemy. We know this is what they are doing because we already have access to de-classifed military craft, and Groom Lake is notorious for it's unmarked stealth ships which we can't identify. We know these are unmarked and aided by foreign and advanced tecnology because the craft are capable of maneuvers that shouldn't be scientifically possible, and they suddenly disappear, thus suggesting we're expermimenting with or have perfected cloaking technology already.
You wouldn't test these types of things anywhere but a location such as this, nor would you do experimentations or keep national and global secrets above ground and in a building that can be visually identified and therefore assaulted directly.
We can assume these dealings because of the airfields themselves, and the fact that you wouldn't house the nation's secrets in Washington or any place that can be hacked into remotely, through a server or a network. The base is in such a location that is both heavily contested by defenses, hard to access from the ground or air, and too far out of the way. The fact the base is subterrainian is also telling.
You can tell alot of this just by looking at the pictures, the choice of terrain, the proximity to the mountains, and the radar placements.
The base is undoubtedly self-sufficent and can operate without guidance from the white house or the chain of command (including whomever the president and his/her cabinet is). It has to be able to do this or else any change in the government would compromise the base's ability to work efficiently. This is quite unlike Homeland Security and other such organizations, which are governed and affected largely by what is happening in Washington.
