LJ,
This is agonizing,
Don’t listen to me. Don’t listen to anyone on here to claims to “know everything”. My “tangible facts” have no more credibility than anyone else’s on here. That is more or less the point I’ve been trying to make for a while now.
Why someone as experienced and knowledgeable as the 2Gp lead for Reaper and some other ISTAR assets until 11 days ago (not Sentinel I assume, OLD BEAN) should have to pimp for info on PPRuNe is beyond me. I’m a little embarrassed for you in that respect. However, by all means feel free to inject your extensive Sentinel knowledge into the mix. Everyone else has.
In fact, what you don’t know, just make up? No one will know the difference.
From your lofty position you still must have some old chum’s phone numbers in the various CAOCs. Call them and hear firsthand how the Sentinel is regarded in terms of current Ops? That might have a bit more cred than something “some dude who claims to be an expert” wrote on his laptop whilst sat in his pants eating potnoodles?