Satellite and UAV RUINS some aspects of play, so:

[Foxtrot]

The commander class would be almost useless if they couldn't detect all classes. Clan matches would be a big game of cat and mouse..

[shadow_wolf]

ya, it would be great to have a spec ops guy blowing your stuff up and not be able to find him

[Foxtrot]

ya, it would be great to have a spec ops guy blowing your stuff up and not be able to find him

Or a sniper run to a back base and have a squad spawn on him.

[straywolf]

Wrong!
Both will show up because the sat scan assumes an IR scan and therefore they WILL show up.
As for the buildings I would agree but we don't know what the sat scan consists off as a whole. It could be MW as well and that will pick up movement within buildings...

Geez dude...its obvious you don't have a friggin CLUE what the modern battelefield is like.