https://twitter.com/Aviation_Intel/status/1207317620866727937
Not to be a party pooper, but the visible image isn't anything special. The specs on the N-G site for the latest Lightening pod show a "1K CCD" camera. If I'm reading that right, it's likely a thousand pixels by a thousand pixels, which is 1 mega pixel and is what you could get in a digital camera in 2002. 5-10 years ago we used Sony block cameras with much higher resolution, and they only cost a few thousand dollars. I presume they chose that format for the visible to match the IR, which they also say is 1K. That would probably be a 1024 by 1024 focal plane array, which is sort of SOA for an operational system, and matching the visible camera with the IR camera is a reasonable decision. When I left the lab 4 years ago, I was integrating a 2K by 2K focal plane array into my system, but I was getting the first FPA with this format.
I'm also a little suspicious of the image in the lower left. I don't think it's an IR image for a couple of reasons, most notably the distinct shadow from the vehicle. I think it's just a gray-scale version of the visible camera. In their defense, they don't label that image as IR, but I bet most people viewing it think that it is IR.
Having said all of that -- I did get to see video from a Lightening pod about 15 years ago. Not sure what generation it was, but it was pretty impressive. When I was developing IR sensors for the Army, I was a bit jealous of the Air Force. Often my biggest challenge was meeting the affordability goal, which an F-16 would probably burn in an hour of flight time.