I get that it's kind of a funny, jokey thing that someone lased a military aircraft and it used a Wescam E/O sensor turret to track down the suspect, but this a

I get that it's kind of a funny, jokey thing that someone lased a military aircraft and it used a Wescam E/O sensor turret to track down the suspect, but this article gets a bit goofy talking about the "high target location accuracy and georeferencing" and "In this situation, the key for the crew is the coordination between the cockpit and the MX-20 operator in the back to “find and fix” the target. But this is something ATL2 crews routinely train for." The reality is that your average police helicopter is probably better equipped to do this: It has high-zoom visible light/thermal sensors, with georeferencing to get exact lat/lon. Additionally, it probably has something along the lines of the Churchill/Shotover ARS system[1][2] that gives operators an overlay with street names, addresses, etc. Even news helicopters in the U.S. are equipped with those. How pilots help police track down laser-strike suspects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1xdgE4xz-o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1xdgE4xz-o This is a good demonstration of a police helicopter with high-res thermal imagery tracking down someone with a laser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaOhD2r-Y8c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaOhD2r-Y8c [1] https://shotover.com/products/ars https://shotover.com/products/ars [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rumcjbVzzLE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rumcjbVzzLE