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pj_mukh 4 hours ago

"The Middle-east" isn't a war zone. Even the parts of the middle-east that are, don't have any drone deployments. Lebanon maybe? Reports are thin.

Maxar is/was primarily a satellite data company, and to say Pokemon data would add any major value in any of today's active drone deployments with the level of Satellite coverage Maxar already has is a wide stretch.

Moreover, ground forces in the area would need pretty heavy jamming tech in place too for this kind of data to be useful. It's a sliver of a sliver of a sliver situation.

WmWsjA6B29B4nfk 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> "The Middle-east" isn't a war zone.

According to Wikipedia, more than half of the Middle East countries are either belligerents or were otherwise attacked in the ongoing war.

bluGill an hour ago | parent [-]

Even with the relatively small countries in the middle east, a country is a large place and so being attacked doesn't make the whole a war zone.

idiotsecant 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think pretty heavy ubiquitous jamming is absolutely a feature of modern warfare now. Ukraine is a model of what's to cone