No they don’t unfortunately.

With a kick, you can roughly see where the kick is taken, and where the player receiving the ball is at the time of the kick.

With a pass, if the player delivers the ball with the hands pointing towards his own team, due to physics, the ball could travel in a forwards trajectory, depending on the speed the player is moving at.

Momentum, physics, call it what you want, it’s very difficult to police, unless they just say, if the ball ends up in front of where it was passed, it’s forwards, only then could you use the same system as the kick.

But to be honest, there’s a number of try’s scored from kicks where the referee doesn’t bother using the technology, when perhaps he should.

Apart from the fact that one decision is based on the absolute position of the players and the ball and the other is based on the relative position of the players and the ball, you are right, they are exactly the same

Good quality ones are. They use them in geology to measure land movement of millimetres over long periods of time.

No I said the system you proposed wouldnt be possible. To avoid confusion i mentioned Hawkeye the company, not hawkeye the system.

Even for you Smokey, that's a poor attempt to wriggle out of something you've said!

Its not really complex to say there may be an engineering solution for accurate judgement of forward passes, but your's wasnt it.