Or did the military belatedly decide it wasn't a
good idea to release these,
with software or without?
Release of the D17Bs was probably a mistake, and I bet a few heads
rolled because of it. The military generally will not release anything
technical related to nuclear warfare, larger missiles, ECM, crypto, or
submarines - not even something as mundane as a test cable to some
tertiary subsystem from a little used system. In the 20some years I
have been doing surplus, I have never seen anything even remotely
significant from these fields "out in the wild", unless completely
demilled (gutted and/or crushed and shredded).
So don't hold your breath.
--
Will