Originally Posted by
mike734
Some retired general was on Huckabee last night and was saying he was fairly sure that we know where it is and that it's not in the Indian Ocean. He said that if we wanted to find it down there then why weren't we using the Global Hawk drone with it's synthetic aperture radar and long loiter times to find it. He also took a question from the peanut gallery about the low resolution photos of debris. He alluded to the question of whether we have the capability to read licensee plates from space and made it seem obvious that theses photos were BS.
Not so fast. What is range and loiter time of GH, and even if practical is limited asset required for higher priority tasking?
The super high res spy satellites are not geosynchronous orbit over the middle of the Indian Ocean, but regular orbits that take them over areas of high interest like NK, Russia, ME, etc, not the IO