Yeah but they do long exposure pictures, not time critical navigation.

I always wonder if those leaks lead to wikipedia improvements on the given topics somewhere down the line

Just be happy u where not exposed to the cyberpropaganda that makes us others understand this meme

ima stay fully non credible here and just claim that the starlink constellation can probably be used engage basically everything because there is no “beyond visual horizon”, the constellation is probably useable as distributed synthetic aperture in multiple wavelengths. Its also very usable for guidance telemetry.

With all that infrastructure in place…not sure if there is still need for flying trucks with limited amounts of air to air missiles. Just add a solid booster stage to some Meteor missiles that have starlink telemetry and u can engage basically everything that flies in a 900km range around each missile battery.

Ill doubt i have the technical expertise to judge any of that.

I think the future of air defense against most air breathing mid sized airborne targets will include:

• Initial target detection via decentral passive radar detectors (using satellites as radar illumination)
• computational layer to choose the next available air defense asset capable of intercepting
• guidance of interceptor to the area of interest via telemetry link
• once the target is in visual range THEN some far IR cam+“AI buzzword of the day” comes in for terminal guidance

I dont even know if it makes sense to call the computation in the missile itself “AI” cuz it dosent take much intelligence for matching 3D models of airplanes to the life picture of the cam and keep that in center. Against the open sky the contrast is so good that fucking 70s analog tech could track a IR blob against it. Top down against ground clutter the process may be more complicated but can be easy tackled by just giving it better optics that only keep the jet and not the ground in focus…

ok rant over i hope that was non credible enough

So its painted in something that has contrast at 12μm wavelength? at this point paint aint gona cut it and u have to put heating stripes below the aircraft’s skin.

this has existed for over 2 decades now btw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EuroFIRST_PIRATE

communication satellite, not for espionage

if i see a person struggling with english and still trying to make educational content about niche topics no one else covers, i have the upmost respect for them

Shellgame time

IR homing sensors before the digital age where a piece of analog signalpath art. Its mostly rotating a singular ir sensor in 45degree and then mapping the inputs rotation compensated to the control surfaces. Simple at core but cant tell the difference between a jet exhaust, the sun, or a flare.

Modern version are boring is a High resolution ir cam and some blackmagic AI picking targets apart from flares.

source for the information in the title: i made it up, or did i?