Alber
I am very much involved in the current Stan scenario as we speak, and can assure you that I am very current with working with JTACs.
I am not going to talk specifics on an open forum such as this, but let's just say that if we had IDM out here in the current CAS jet it would make not one bit of difference. I shall say no more than that, so you'll have to trust me that it's true.
Not to say that IDM isn't good, and I've some experience of working with it in a previous life, but it has to be available to everyone in theatre before it can be used. A talk on from a JTAC doesn't take that long, and it takes less than a minute to put some co-ords in the kit and have a sensor down on the grid.
Jacko
I'm afraid you may have some duff info there. Again, nothing will be said here on this forum.