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Classified fighter jet specs leaked on War Thunder forums – again
(ukdefencejournal.org.uk)
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this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2024
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WW2 makes it incredibly unlikely
But, fun fact, Wikipedia and other public websites totally CAN (unknowingly) have sensitive material on them. In large part because saying "Hey. We need you to remove that snippet that said the Asgard landed in Toronto, hitch hiked to Dallas, and blapped JFK" because... it confirms that that is "close enough" to real that it has revealed classified information.
I am not familiar with this specific event. But I can also see that as just being a catch all policy they have regarding sources to have fewer cases of governments calling them and asking them to remove "something" with the only info being "You know what it is".
Its also why a lot of the "War Thunder or whatever has classified information leaks again!" are usually actually more just export control violations (... which are actually MUCH scarier but...).