Now based on one of Grusch interviews (can’t remmeber which one) he says that they can’t say how many crashes they have retrieved but that the numbers are for sure in the double digits, so something between 10 and 99, and that he can’t tell more because they don’t want them(other {rival?} countries) to know the exact number.
that said, what if it is well known that many other countries have retrieved crashes and that some of them may not be as friendly towards others, they may be in a “weapon race” to reverse engineer this technology and revealing information about the whole project, specially about the confirmation of the retrivals, and status of the reverse engineering could be detrimental to national security, possible causing incursions from rival nations or a full on war to obtain this technology.
by not disclosing they would be keeping their weapons concealed and avoid the conflict.
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