"As for the single-person small flying device, we will embed a dragonfly…"
At this point, Harrison Clark paused briefly.
He recalled the Compound-Eyed Observer's Dragonfly Fighter.
The others gradually caught on as well.
Everyone burst into laughter.
It turned out to be as simple as that.
Research is like that; some seemingly straightforward principles that ordinary people can grasp can become dead ends for even the brightest minds. Even with collective intelligence branching out, it's still not easy to get out of these ruts.
Perhaps someone had thought of Clark's idea before, but they had a small, separate task to do first. They figured they would finish it and then report to their superiors, but by the time they looked up, several months had passed.
It's also possible that a small team was already developing in this direction, but due to insufficient technical expertise and resource allocation, they couldn't produce results quickly enough.