Amazing!!!
Yes. Next Question.
Each of those various countries probably figure their military security (and relative secrecy) is more important.
I do recall that when the Allies broke some codes, they had to allow some people to get killed, in order to keep the enemy from knowing they broke the communication code.
In a way, it is probably like that with these various military operations in these various countries.
Interesting. I was wondering something similar: if the Chinese, Iranians, Russians are paying close attention to the United States and any information that we might provide that might help them learn about our satellite tracking and other spy systems. Malaysia is right in their back yard.
It is possible that the US government knows the location of the plane but isn’t telling... not for a while, anyway.
As I understand it the range of the aircraft from the satellite that was pinging the engines every 30 minutes was collected from the time of takeoff. The range for the final pinging has been widely shown and indicates that somewhere on or near that big arc you find the missing 777.
But if you had all of the 8 to 12 pings with corresponding arcs you could certainly do some what-if analysis using air speed as a variable and do at least an approximate track of that aircraft.
This seems obvious and so one would expect the math wizards at NSA/CIA/DOD must be doing that analysis assuming they have the data. I assume they do. I assume they therefore have a pretty good idea where to look. But they are mum on the subject. Somethings up.
Maybe somebody shot it down and they just don’t want to admit it?
Loose lips sink ships.