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This would have applications for police for detecting unauthorized activities such as smuggling or movements of agriculture planes (chemical spraying) on private airfields. Assuming the planes are >25m.


>25m rules out all sprayer planes, all hobby planes, and anything smaller than a CRJ-700, like all private business jets.

It also rules out most military planes! Including the B21 Raider stealth bomber and F35.

So that limits it pretty much exclusively to large cargo aircraft, large passenger aircraft, and large military transport aircraft.

This is not terribly useful for anything other than tracking military logistics but only the US does that by planes in any significant manner.

That >25m is a giant limit they just kind of walk right past.


That's the same category for me. The category that either gets people killed or violates people's rights in some way. It's not going to be used in any way that's a net benefit to normal people, only to the top 1% and the government.




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