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<blockquote data-quote="HackerF15E" data-source="post: 1836943" data-attributes="member: 9689"><p>As a military pilot who has trained in the US, I find it pretty laughable that folks are worried about this. </p><p></p><p>I used to fly a surveillance airplane....and trained to do our mission by sometimes looking at civilian vehicles and structures. There is no big conspiracy...there's a 20 year old enlisted kid sitting on the other end of that sensor feed desperately trying to figure out how to operate the IR ball while tracking a car with it (ergo, simply keeping the crosshairs of the camera on the vehicle as it moves around through terrain, buildings, other traffic, etc). Civilian vehicles are sometimes looked at because they're available, they're unpredictable (we don't have any idea where they're going or where they came from), and presents an opportunity to train on something that somewhat realistically simulates and actual mission tasking.</p><p></p><p>No "intelligence" is being collected. Clearly the guy who wrote the article did not have any context whatsoever to what he was looking at.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HackerF15E, post: 1836943, member: 9689"] As a military pilot who has trained in the US, I find it pretty laughable that folks are worried about this. I used to fly a surveillance airplane....and trained to do our mission by sometimes looking at civilian vehicles and structures. There is no big conspiracy...there's a 20 year old enlisted kid sitting on the other end of that sensor feed desperately trying to figure out how to operate the IR ball while tracking a car with it (ergo, simply keeping the crosshairs of the camera on the vehicle as it moves around through terrain, buildings, other traffic, etc). Civilian vehicles are sometimes looked at because they're available, they're unpredictable (we don't have any idea where they're going or where they came from), and presents an opportunity to train on something that somewhat realistically simulates and actual mission tasking. No "intelligence" is being collected. Clearly the guy who wrote the article did not have any context whatsoever to what he was looking at. [/QUOTE]
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