World Surveillance Group Inc (fka WSGI)

[jpharrah]

If the "only" advantage the Stratellite will have is cost....

It should already be obsolete from a military standpoint. I say that because our fighting men and women deserve the absolute finest equipment regardless of the cost. Now that the pilotless Reaper can achieve 50,000 feet it can do everything the Stratellite is only "hoped" to do.

But more importantly, it can do so much more!

It's reconnaissance will not be limited to a "station kept" location, but "is" capable of imaging from almost every angle imaginable and even close up, compared to a platform parked at near space. Like the article said, one of the Reaper's main advantages is speed. It can be deployed in a fraction of the time it would take otherwise. But the reason I personally think the military will always prefer something like the Reaper is the capability it has of streamlining operations and saving American lives. After all, with the Reaper, many times you wouldn't have to merely use its reconnaissance capabilities. You could take care of business immediately with it's firepower and the good guys are never put in harms way.

Please tell me you don't want to take these advantages away from out troops for merely a "cost" savings.

Besides, we're comparing the current "real" capabilities of an existing weapon to merely the "possibility" of a product that has never been completed, tested or used.

The Reaper is superior to Sanswire's "hopes" now. Just imagine how far Reaper type technology will be ahead "if" "someday" the Stratellites actually exist.

And the company that manufactures the Reaper really is manufacturing, testing, and improving "real" Reapers, every day.


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