ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Raytheon Sentinel

So, imagine there's a big bird that can fly way up high in the sky and it has really good eyesight. It can see things that are really far away and it can also see things that are hard to see from the ground.

Now, some people wanted to use this bird's eyesight to help them keep track of things on the ground, like cars and planes and boats. But they didn't want to use a real bird - that would be too expensive and too hard to control.

So, they decided to make a machine that looks like a plane but it's not really a plane that someone rides in. It's called the Raytheon Sentinel. It has special cameras and other things on it that let it see things on the ground from way up high in the sky.

It's kind of like a giant flying camera that takes pictures of everything on the ground. But it can also do other things like listen to people talking on the ground or pick up signals from other machines.

The Raytheon Sentinel is really important because it helps people stay safe. For example, if there's bad guys trying to do something bad, the Raytheon Sentinel can help the good guys see what's going on and stop them before anyone gets hurt.

So, in short, the Raytheon Sentinel is a giant bird-like machine that can fly really high and help people keep track of things on the ground so they can stay safe.