Originally Posted by
BlackadderIA
Why waste many hours searching a large area with the high-res UAV camera when you can instead discount 98% of it with Sentinel and key the FMV onto the moving vehicles/static vehicles that have arrived since yesterday instead?
We should be able to do both. I hear Atlantique (ATL2s) are extensively used. I'm not sure they got a SAR per se as of today, but they combine an AtoG radar and FLIR/optical sensors, plus an interesting loitering capability (even if less than a classic MALE UAV).