I some time ago I met a PJHQ planner who said that the data was ‘absolutely vital’ and that in Afganistan, ‘nothing moved without Sentinel MTI data’ - at the planning stage that is presumably.
MTI only tells you that something is moving. It doesn't tell you what it is. For planning I guess it can say that 'something moved from one place to another' but you still need to send another asset else to see what it is.
I suppose it was 'vital' if that's all we had. Would we have bought it just for that?
As you say mate, sad for the Raytheon guys, at least they would have had an inkling that the end was near.
Good luck to all who move on from here.