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by ChrisMarshallNY 398 days ago
This is probably the one that will pay the bills.

If you can figure out fairly close-to-the-ground elevations, you can model a strike zone quite well.

Good for special operations raids.

But those folks might also have access to specialized NRO satellites, that can give you the data without the inference.

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The US has that but a lot other nations do not, and Ukraine's been buying up geospatial imagery all over just as fast as it can get it.
can you explain this a bit more? i dont know a lot about this use case but it sounds pretty interesting
I’m not sure what there is to explain.

Seems pretty straightforward.