This video as it relates/doesn't relate to the FLIR footage we've all seen

[Creepy Green Light]

This was yesterday (I believe). A Russian SU-27 flies right up the starboard side of a Lockheed EP-3 Aries (same plane I used to fly in except they rip out all the anti submarine warfare gear and replace it with eavesdropping gear and rename it Aries instead of Orion). It's a short video only 10 seconds but again, this is the type of quality we should be seeing. Of course, someone already pointed out that the Pentagon purposely released that FLIR footage we've all seen because you can't determine what the object is from the footage available.

 

[nivek]

What's your point?...

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[pigfarmer]

That the video we have seen so far from military sources could be much better

 

[Creepy Green Light]

What's your point?...

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Is there anything interesting with this video as to comparison with the FLIR footage, esp when the Russian jet goes into afterburner?

 

[APIGuy]

Is there anything interesting with this video as to comparison with the FLIR footage, esp when the Russian jet goes into afterburner?

It would take some analysis. The range to the Tictac is said to be about half a mile (going on memory here, could be different), whereas the fighter is much closer. Also, not clear this is the same sensor, 14 years later and on a different aircraft.

I would think that there is better calibration footage on known targets for the sensor in question.

 

[pigfarmer]

Is there anything interesting with this video as to comparison with the FLIR footage, esp when the Russian jet goes into afterburner?

Haven't seen the tic-tac video in a while but I don't remember it producing a huge heat plume from kicking in it's fossil fuel burning engines