Jännä tarina joltakin yliaktiiviselta eläkeläisosinttaajalta:
Siis tuo CENTCOM-kuvio. Kyllähän tuo isompien taivaankappaleiden havainnointi on ollut tiedossa.
Gripens don’t see low earth orbit satellites even if they tried. F-35s do without the pilot even asking once they get above a certain altitude band. They just look up and see the TGT tracks in the HMDS. Then there’s all of the surface contact data that an F-35 collects, as well as air data on other platforms.
In CENTCOM, they were tasking several highly-sensitive dedicated reconnaissance platforms to look for a certain surface threat, who could not find it. Some F-35s on their separate missions accidentally located, PID’d, and reported it with full RF/IR spectrum imagery collected in ways the dedicated spy platforms could never do. This was a Named Target of Interest from the Joint Chiefs of Staff level that the other platforms could not find. These and many other reasons are why F-35 collective sensor data is immediately classified with SCI compartments. Gripen is nowhere near this level of sensor clustering, integration, and data-sharing, though the networking is good on later model Gripens.