What if?…🎈Across the Great Plains, from northern Colorado and throughout Wyoming, North Dakota, and Montana, are the missile fields of the United States nuclear program. Each of the three Strategic Missile Wings at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana, F. E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming
(plainshumanities.unl.edu)
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A quick Google search will show you that all these airborne surveillance are very much real and used routinely. Perhaps your experience is outdated?
My experience was based on working with AWACS, JSTARS, and side-looking radars. These take a lot of power, weight, and real estate. Fancy sensors are finicky and need good control of the platform's movement. SIGINT, ELINT, and COMINT systems are much lighter and require less power. They can also compensate for the platform movement.
Frankly, I don't know what he is referring to, since his nomenclature is too vague. Apparently two Twitter posts have been joined together. No clue what "acoustic light penetrative field (DAS)" refers to. A search on that only loops back to his post.
In any case, it is entirely a speculative leap for him to declare what he did.
These are probably not too commonly used, but definitely not made up. I think he is talking about some advanced versions of these technologies.
AEM - Airborne electromagnetics
GPR - Ground penetrating radar
DAS - Distributed Acoustic Sensing
Originally I got the impression that you were posting an opinion thats based on your professional experience. But yeah, I am not so sure its a speculative leap for him.
I was expressing my view based on my professional experience. AEM is used mostly for geologic studies. A "small" target is considered to be less than 10 meters in extent. This is completely inadequate to develop a diagram of missile silos. GPR is mostly surface based, but has similar limitations in regard to image resolution. DAS requires a large field of optical fibers as sensors, and is not compatible with an airborne platform.
So, I'm the guy with the professional experience and you are not---and you think this is not speculation?
Highly questionable, but thats just my opinion!