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Not sure you are were trying to be serious or not, but the DEF-H was one of the defensive systems used to jam surface to air threats. The system had two "modules" with one in the l…

An offensive RF/cyber operation would be very interesting indeed.

Most likely TIANLIAN satcom

Most likely using the Chinese TIANLIAN satcom for C2 and data backhaul.

This looks like it was the two seat trainer version of the U-2 which doesn't carry mission equipment like the SYERS sensor or a data-link.

You believe that the Government could hide/destroy all archival Target Development packages, SIGINT Reporting, Full Motion Video, Tactical Reports, Collateral Damage Estimates, Jud…

Yes - the question assumes that innocents are not intentionally targeted.

I understand you are responding in a flippant manner, but in warfare many innocents are inevitably killed, and it would be best to have a common understanding of an agreeable perce…

Assuming some future declared moral war, what would be an acceptable percentage of collateral casualties?

This doesn't really answer the question though. What is a reasonable percentage that would be acceptable to most readers here? If it helps we can assume equity in terms of ability …

Can somebody please confirm the percentage of bystanders allowed to be killed when fighting war in a moral fashion? I'm assuming no war/technology is perfect, and nobody can reason…

You mean he wasn't capable of gaming out the consequences of the Government reacting poorly to the use of official whistleblower mechanisms and wouldn't therefore be able to go to …

It's likely that the sentence wouldn't have been as harsh had there been evidence that he tried official channels first.

I probably shouldn't have said it's "easier" to declassify. It's more of simply being a matter of deciding that the NIIRS (basically resolution) rating of the imagery from the OBC …

The U-2 is the only U.S. surveillance aircraft still flying a "wet film" camera called the Optical Bar Camera, or OBC. Ironically, this relatively old technology keeps the U-2 miss…

I wish more SR-71 stories focused on the sensors and defensive systems. Although not a sexy as the aircraft, in some ways the SR-71 could be considered a "sensor truck." Post-missi…

Fantastic transcription - really interesting! These early U-2 pilots had a lot of courage and love for flying. Thank You for posting this.

No - that's not true. Pilots are fully aware of the sensor configuration. There are a number of sensor controls and circuit breakers in the cockpit that are checklist and operator …

Film alone doesn't determine performance - the whole instrument must be considered. The OBC trades "resolution" for area coverage rate. The digital electro-optical imagery from the…

Not true. Landlords may prefer to forgo a new tenant and keep rent increases reasonable for many reasons. The cost of tenant turnover can be very high. They may not want to take th…

Your 15% leveraged return is only true if you have no borrowing costs. If you had a 4% mortgage you would actually be losing 1% the first year. A leveraged return L = (asset return…

Renting or owning from a purely financial point of view is a relatively straightforward problem and is answered quite nicely with the NY Times Rent vs. Buy calculator (with the cav…