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2024-05-28 Science & Technology

The satellites using radar to peer at earth in minute detail

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-05-28 05:25|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

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KH-11 (Keyhole) could capture a person's imagine at 110 miles in the early 80's.

Now, the spooks admit they can resolve to mere inches from 160 miles up on a clear day.

One has to wonder, how far along the spooks are actually past the KH-11 Block 5 design now some 10+ years later?

Posted by NN2N1 2024-05-28 06:48|| 2024-05-28 06:48|| Front Page Top

#2 ..but they can't tell you who left cocaine in the White House.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-05-28 08:00|| 2024-05-28 08:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Seth Rich....Cold Case. Thousands of J6 people identified.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-05-28 08:11|| 2024-05-28 08:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Did they catch the J6 bomber yet? Maybe I missed it.

Posted by Bobby 2024-05-28 08:23|| 2024-05-28 08:23|| Front Page Top

#5 A look at Hamas tunnels, por favor?

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-05-28 09:05|| 2024-05-28 09:05|| Front Page Top

#6 Summertime's ~~coming~~ here.
The tunnel exit's thermal gradient should be quite evident.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-05-28 13:01|| 2024-05-28 13:01|| Front Page Top

#7 I remember fondly using an Air Guard RF-4C in support of Counter-Drug operations looking for a huge underground grow site in the rural California Central Valley. We had them fly a suspected area using both Visual Camera and FLIR systems. The side by side film images afterwards showed a plain field with a small shed, and a well defined drive-up path to it. The InfraRed showed a huge heat plume from the shed, the out-gassing for the massive sunlamp heat from a basketball sized underground grow site with hundreds of high grade hydroponic sativa plants. Military support to civil authorities at its finest!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-05-28 15:54|| 2024-05-28 15:54|| Front Page Top

#8 Synthetic Aperture Radar can see some incredible details, even below the surface. Things like missile silos, revetment tunnels, and submarines running shallow.
One of the basic limitations is caused by the microwave wavelength being unable to resolve smaller objects.

Posted by ed in texas 2024-05-28 16:03|| 2024-05-28 16:03|| Front Page Top

#9 Being able to see recently moved soil along roadways in AFG and Iraq saved a lot of lives. Not sure what the airborne technology was, but a lot of IEDs were spotted. That was nearly 20 years ago.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-05-28 16:21|| 2024-05-28 16:21|| Front Page Top

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