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Much more, but they don't want you (or "the enemy") to know how much they know. Of course, Trump "accidentally" revealed the US's sattelite imagery capability (https://www.npr.org/2022/11/18/1137474748/trump-tweeted-an-i...).

I think once the Ukraine war is over, maybe in years to come, the impact of US intelligence will become fully clear. I'm fairly sure it was due to US intelligence on the location of Russian ships like the Moskva that they were taken out, and that doesn't even need particularly high resolution cameras.



And that's a six year old image. Imagine the state of the art in 2025.




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