Any of your RAF or Army Photo Interpreters/Imagery Analysts log any time as observers in any of your current platforms?
Seems that they would be the guys/gals with the training to pick out what's on the ground if the sensor feed is displayed in the cabin. Or maybe have the sensor pic datalinked to a ground station so only mission essential pers are onboard...thinking out loud here.
Shame about the PR9...darn good platform...want some RF-111's? lol. Whoever mentioned the idea about getting the Indians to make some new Canberras for you might have a solution...Bit off the subject but read today in Defense News that the Ruskies are offering the Indians their MiG-21 factory to buy and relocate because of the hassles the Indians have had with parts etc. Apparently they have lost 220 MiG-21's in crashes which leaves them with 700ish.. faark.. lot of Acft.
What other platform could be easily adapted to carry the PR9 sensors and still have some semblance of being a military aircraft, as opposed to a modded bizjet? And offer comparable performance (FL500 etc)