Still looks pretty modern to me. Remember this was the 1990s in which there was a surge in the shifting of technology.

Same diligence.

Really? Yet they couldn't even see an active shoota from an elevated position with scopes trained right on him?

@@kirkstanfield3773 actually, the US government had this technology for at least a decade at this time.

"Arab Spring was queer."

DarthJabba, trying to make a funny comment on KZfaq.

Hell, that's any American office.

Don't know about that cause humpty trumpty s office had a good coffee maker but it was still a disaster.

@@edwardmoore5325 Those sophisticated Flavias, Keurigs, Starbucks, etc, etc was just quick, instant coffee on the run. The old style decanters, drip coffee machines using real grinds is what most wanted.

A lot of them use the automatic drip coffee machines that drip into pump thermoses. Some still liked the glass decanters though.

@@edwardmoore5325 better than biddy tiddys office when he sh*t his pants. That or when he's falling all over stage or on a flight of stairs.

I would not expect Tom Clancy to know this, particularly in 1987 when Patriot Games was written, but electro-optical satellites (even Talent Keyhole reconnaissance satellites) take imagery from nadir to very oblique angles. "Retasking" a satellite is not a terribly big deal, really it amounts to shuffling the satellites target deck so that the intended target is earlier or later in the lineup so that the satellite views it from a different position. And while I love the idea of the FMV satellite feed over the camp when they attack, such a thing is just not that feasable with even current technology. This presumes that he is talking about changing the targeting order and not something like changing the orbit. They (the NRO) do not change satellite orbits for anyone. At the time of the book and later the movie, NASA and USGS was the primary source of overhead unclassified imagery to draw from when doing research into such things. Much of it was (very) low resolution, and often was restricted to near nadir shots to maximize apparent ground resolution. Thus oblique shots were hard to come by.

NERRRRRRRRRRRD

Ted acted in seaQuest DSV.

@@jonnysupremeYep. Proud of it too!

long time bit part actor

Yes. All of these technologies were military before being released into commercial hands, after they were plaintifully exploited it.

Google didn't existed before 1997

@tempesttempest769 Whoosh

They could do that during the cold war. Now they can see someone masturbate through a roof.

Crazy to think how far we've come.

okay general

@@TreXXen you're damn right it's okay, Private.

Read a tattoo from an orbital satellite? I'm skeptical. From a surveillance drone, sure. From a satellite, through atmospheric distortions? I doubt it.

To Han Solo of all people!😂

and obama had him killed

And the CIA was supplying him Semtex through Edwin P. Wilson

Nice catch!!

Couldn't you use a U-2 rather than a satellite?

@@TheRealTburt Perhaps, but the CIA wasn't using the U-2 in the 1990s. They'd have to ask the U.S. Air Force.

John Clerk. Hehehe

Clancy books are amazing

Grand Moff Tarkin, Windows?!?! 😂

Yeah but back then the Intel 486 was the shit 😆

What Blade Runner reference?

@@DaftSwank zooming/enhancing of photos. It's practically a meme in and of itself.

Enhance

@@DaftSwank kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gc-hnsadqLDXiqc.htmlsi=TTzrIB13ULp7YRR9

Elsewhere in the film his Aliens soundtrack gets reused too

Horner was kinda notorious for recycling some of his own music from earlier films. But there was still enough original material there to make each soundtrack unique from his other works.

Yep.. Horner definitely recycled his own music.. like how you hear the leitmotif for Khan at the start of Enemy at the Gates. But.. he and other composers are also standing on the shoulders of giants. Both he and John Williams borrowed from Holst (Star Wars and Star Trek) and Tchaikovsky (Home Alone and Star Trek as well).

@@calvinnickel9995 great points

"My God, Man! If you want to see tits, use another computer!!!"

Because he didn't liked the idea of retasking the satellite.

Call TRW tech support, they might still have sales pamphlet.

Digital by KH11. The ones that took film tossed the exposed ones into the Earth to be caught by cargo planes (KH4 Corona)

Probably tipped off by their Libyan hosts who got intel from the Soviets.

now you can go online and see the sats in real time. not sure if CIA ones are on display

it came out not to long ago that many heads of ira were actually part of three letter agencies..

A telescope and basic astronomy math, Or helpful intelligence.

Oh so you can't just retask satellites to observe single suspects running from the nsa?

They don’t but the KGB would have through spies. The IRA are communist and were allies with the USSR who would have provided that data.

@ReaverLordTonus Because satellites are easy to see and amateurs can create almanacs of them based on their location and trajectory (KH satellites are in low polar orbits for 100% coverage of the Earth).

The SAS doesn't need any motivation from the CIA to want to take out IRA. The CIA is just pointing them in the right direction.

No but if the US let slip to the Brits its an IRA camp the SAS will do the rest

All you have to is call it cooperative intelligence sharing, and maybe throw a few million in operational funding their way, and SAS will hit just about anything on earth.

They'd just pass this across the pond. The IRA was a British issue.

Five eyes.

It's also a sort of plausible deniability thing, I'm sure.

they use whoever is closest to the target really, North Africa is sort of where the SAS was operating at the time, I do believe in the book it was French SF since they operate in Africa too

They would have used the SAS for political reasons. Technically, America wasn't at war with the IRA, and it would have pissed off a lot of Irish-Americans if American special forces were used.

@@gaelicreaction1049​​⁠Exactly, and the SAS would have already been conducting direct and covert action against paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland.

yes you go it sean edwords ira fighter shhh you dont see if you do thay will kill you shhh

Has nothing to do with this movie.

God doesn’t exist.

Wouldn’t they need to rotate the solar panels 180° to use a hubble class sat to look at the earth. Plus the fact that they would have opposite light sensitivity requirement…

@@G_de_Coligny that may be why the NRO declined using it.

Didn't NASA take ex spy sat tech and use it for the Mar's mapping missions? I feel like I heard a story similar to yours, they basically gave them the satellites and told this was old equipment and the NRO had better stuff they would be using.

@@Swarm509 they did. The NRO gave them two older telescopes, from the 70s I believe, that were equal to or better than the Hubble. They were outdated tech to the NRO.

Negative. Atmospheric distortion makes it impossible.