FWIW, I also recall the tech being originally used to find people who planted IEDs in Afghanistan.
I'm kind of shocked about how all the articles I am finding seem to emphasize real-time police chases.
Now I'm feeling super suspicious.
>> In 2004, when casualties in Iraq were rising due to roadside bombs, Ross McNutt and his team came up with an idea. With a small plane and a 44 mega-pixel camera, they figured out how to watch an entire city all at once, all day long. Whenever a bomb detonated, they could zoom onto that spot and then, because this eye in the sky had been there all along, they could scroll back in time and see - literally see - who planted it.
Apparently, my mind created some very visual memories from the narrative.
Thanks!
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/04/sheriff...
https://scholarship.law.uc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1... (search for "rewind")
I'd rather think it's because Google sucks now, and those keywords just bring up too many similar articles, but my metaphorical tinfoil hat is my hands.
Your tips got me to this one, where it more clearly spells out the "rewind" capability. I think the problem was that the tech was attached to a low-flying, piloted plane, not drones.
https://www.csoonline.com/article/2226742/record-and-rewind-...
Whew! It feels better to set my tinfoil hat down on the table next to me...
See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARGUS-IS
Edit: found it. Should have limited the search to HN from the start. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24188661
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/all-about-seruku-search-...