Gimbal: Electronic Warfare Aircraft Hypothesis

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This theory proposes that the object recorded in the 2015 Gimbal FLIR video may have been a distant, low-observable U.S. aircraft, such as an F-35, participating in a compartmentalized electronic warfare operation during the Roosevelt workups. In this scenario, the aircraft generates deceptive radar contacts near its general line of sight, but deliberately displaced from its true position. The Roosevelt aviators detect these contacts on radar and direct their FLIR toward the same general area, where the infrared signature of the real aircraft is easily acquired.

Because the radar contacts and IR source appear in approximately the same direction, an observer could reasonably assume that at least one radar contact and the object visible in FLIR are the same physical target. In reality, they would be spatially separated. The result is a deliberately confusing multisensor picture: radar indicates a relatively nearby object or formation, while FLIR is actually observing a more distant aircraft. Attempts to correlate, track, or target the object simultaneously using radar and infrared sensors could therefore produce conflicting position and range information.

This could potentially reconcile two competing interpretations of Gimbal: the aviators may have been accurately reporting what their radar/SA displays showed, while analyses suggesting the FLIR object was a distant conventional aircraft could also be correct.

This is speculation, not a claim about what occurred. The hypothesis asks whether electronic warfare deception could explain the Gimbal infrared recording.