r/SpecialAccess

4K archived posts · Nov 2012 – Sep 2026

Special Access Programs

r/SpecialAccess

Created in 2012 r/SpecialAccess is a community devoted to uncovering the hardware produced by Special Access Programs of the last 50 years. Long after these programs are completed, the massive security around them still remains. The astronomical costs associated with declassification keeps their status in limbo indefinitely. As a result these historic works of engineering are often buried and their records destroyed.

Created Nov 18, 2012

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/r/SpecialAccess is a community devoted to uncovering Special Access Programs of the last 50 years.

A Special Access Program (SAP) is a platform or project (sometimes very exotic) that has extremely controlled access, distribution, and protections way beyond those of "top secret". This enforced state of need-to-know ensures only a minimum number of cleared personnel are given access to SAP information.

Long after a program has been completed, the massive security around it lives on. Many of these programs could be declassified, but the astronomical costs associated with declassification keeps their status in limbo indefinitely. As a result these historic works of engineering are sometimes buried and their records destroyed.

This robs a great many selfless individuals of the credit they deserve for working on these secretive programs. We would like to change that. Please help us on our quest to uncover the cobwebs from-

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