eli5 why is military aircraft and weapon targeting footage always so grainy and colourless when we have such high res cameras?

Question

eli5 why is military aircraft and weapon targeting footage always so grainy and colourless when we have such high res cameras?

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Got a specific video you are referring to?

Lack of color is because most targeting is done with FLIR, which doesn’t observe color so to speak. Quality could be a lot of things, depends on the particular video.