Reyes was at his desk when the specifications arrived.
He opened the document, read the classification header, and called Mendez before he reached the physical dimensions section.
She was in his office four minutes later. Hahn arrived two minutes after that, coffee in hand, unhurried until he saw Reyes's expression.
"Read it," Reyes said.
The both of them read it.
Mendez finished first. She set the document down and looked at the ceiling for a moment. Then she looked at Reyes. "Below sixty decibels at five hundred meters."
"Yeah."
"A vehicle with a gross unloaded mass of two hundred and ten thousand kilograms produces less noise at five hundred meters than a library."
"I saw it."
Hahn was still reading. He moved slowly through the propulsion section, then the approach profile, then stopped at the electromagnetic and radar section. He read it twice. "They're telling us they've been flying this thing invisibly and they're offering to turn the invisibility off as a courtesy."
