This system has been used to precisely target Russian equipment and forces operating on the frontlines of Ukraine. It has been an active, albeit indirect, participant in the war on behalf of Ukraine.

Reconnaissance aircraft snoop around potentially hostile nations (or their ships) gathering photographic and electronic intelligence. Their crews would rather they are not referred to as ‘spy planes’ ...

Two of the Royal Air Force’s most advanced surveillance planes have completed a 12-hour mission patrolling the Russian border. A pair of spy planes flew nearly 10,000 miles along the Russian border ...