Do you even read?

What has the so-called secrecy of satellites got to do with anything? I'm curious as to where your thinking is going. UAV's do the jobs that normal military aircraft do. Bombing, surveillance, BDA, support. They are not satellites. Satellites can't bomb targets, cannot provide certain types of surveillance, or provide support for operations teams. Satellites are essential for the operations of UAV's though. In fact, UAV's couldn't exist without them. How do you think a guy sat in Lincoln can fly a mission over Afghanistan? In real time? Through ground station triangulation? Halfway across the world? In an environment that doesn't even have electricity let alone communication masts.

Which one is it Stan? Deliberate ignorance or breathtaking stupidity? I'm not so sure anymore.

I'm not on about Bombing. I'm on about reconnaissance. Durrh

Once again, read what I put.

Military Satellites can only provide a certain level of surveillance, regardless of what you've seen in the movies. They mainly provide radar coverage over large areas. They can provide optical imagery to a certain scale. That being a large scale. They can only provide optical imagery if there's no clouds and seeing as the planet is pretty much littered with clouds all the time, not a particularly good option if time is a constraint on your work. If you want to plan an operation on the ground or run BDA missions then satellites are no good. They don't have the resolution that can be provided by an aircraft. All 'small' scale surveillance has to be done by aircraft. Some at high altitude some at low. That's how you get the best detail.

Satellites mainly provide communication.

Now, Mr Armchair liar, you could try answering the question I asked instead of avoiding it as usual.

How does a man in Lincolnshire fly a UAV in Afghanistan in real time, if satellites don't exist to provide constant communication of the pilots inputs?

Come on Stan, you can do this! try answering this one question.

He won't. He won't ever answer any straight question. This is why I am certain he's trolling, at least part of the time, though he is clearly delusional.

Now you most certainly know they couldn't possibly have sent full screen full frame-rate video to you down a 1990 phoneline, so why did you even bother, with that embarrassing attempt to rectify your "broadband" mistake, liar?

I know you're a troll and a bit of an idiot but this is just hilarious!

Typical example of a Stanley swerve, when the questions get too hard:-

Reply with something that's 100% irrelevant to the question, which asked about 2-way voice comms via satellite phones working in the remotest locations. Not GPS

So, Stanley, come on, So, can you explain to me how come a satellite phone will work at the North Pole, then? Or in the middle of the Sahara? Or the Amazon rainforest? Or the middle of the Pacific? Or any other utterly remote place on the globe?

Whilst we're on the subject of satellite comms, you know when on TV any report is coming from far countries via satellite link, there is this noticeable delay while the signals go up into space and back down. What's YOUR explanation?

Why do they bother driving a satellite van with a huge fukkoff dish on the roof which they align to the comms satellite?

Clearly there's no Sky phoneline in the broadcast locations- eg desert war zones - so aside from sending fake satellite equipment around the globe for no reason, and presumably paying batallions of engineers to pretend to be using satellite - none of whom has ever spilled the beans that they're not - how do they get the pictures to your screen?

I have only asked this question because I am a bit bored and I hope your answer will be as funny as I think it might

[iIn reply to your angry ad hominem ramblings. Back in the 80's-90's the system was obviously a little different than today. Before the phone landline introduction the workings of the systems went a bit like this. The Sky installer would erect the dish/Aerial. Then cable clip to the Box location. Then to receive the correct package a Sky Chipcard would be inserted into the box giving you your selected package. If an upgrade was required a new card was issued by post or an engineer visit for re- chip your original card to the specific package. See why use chipcards if the Satellite was worthy of allocating packages. Its because they don't use satellites.[/i

You could try answering my question instead of avoiding it, Stan.

How does a guy in Lincolnshire pilot a UAV over Afghanistan in real-time without the use of satellites to relay his inputs?

Bare in mind that most of Afghanistan hasn't got comms towers, even if you could somehow transmit across towers from the UK, across Europe, and into the middle east and beyond in real-time, which you can't.

I'm waiting Mr Armchair liar.

So now i've cleared the TV situation up, you now swerve the diversion to cell phones. Hahaha you're the one calling me a loon and then back-peddle to other topics trying to outdo my knowledge but you fail all the time. If i'm the loon why do you continue to regurgitate immature ad hominem ramblings.. Easy meat.

[iAnd you're another one. More Ad Hominem. Doesn't matter what answer i give. Whether right or wrong i get loon, stupid, idiot. Next thing you're all queuing for my attention. I didn't know idiots were in that much demand. [/i

Swerve again.

You could try answering my question instead of avoiding it, Stan.

How does a guy in Lincolnshire pilot a UAV over Afghanistan in real-time without the use of satellites to relay his inputs?

Bare in mind that most of Afghanistan hasn't got comms towers, even if you could somehow transmit across towers from the UK, across Europe, and into the middle east and beyond in real-time, which you can't.

I'm waiting Mr Armchair liar.

Talking about swerving. How does love evolve from rocks.

[iMore insults. You're Mr Armchair you're never off here. [/i

[iSame as any other Aircraft does triangulation. All aircraft use GPS ground based triangulation.as i already proved earlier in the thread.. simples. [/i

You're only being dishonest with yourself, Mr Armchair liar.

Come on Mr Bully boy meatball army knock-back. The man who believes his children aren't blessings. How did love evolve from rocks,. You won't know you wouldn't know love if it smacked you in the face.

You seem awfully interested in my love life, Stan's other account. I'm sorry but I'm taken, you old fox you.

Your insults need a little work to, by the way.

Love from rocks. You have swerved this question on six occasions now. 3x theButcher and 3x Bren2k. I'm me and Stanley is Stanley. You're the one with numerous accounts.

I'm sorry I'm taken. But if you write something nice I may change my mind. I'm a sucker for dumb blondes. You are blonde right?

What kind of question is 'how does love come from rocks?'

It's like asking 'How do Unicorns use knives and forks?'

Stan's other account hasn't worked out how to ask coherent questions. it's not swerving, it's having no idea what it's on about.

Great. Make a joke out of it. Keep swerving. How did love evolve from rocks. Your unnatural selected religion can't answer that. What a shame your kids aren't blessings.

Can anyone understand what Stan's other account is rambling about?

Still swerving. HaHaHa.

Rocks soak-up the love from creatures that die close to them. It builds up slowly over time, but not deep time because that silly idea doesn't exist. When the rocks are full they emit a faint song, not unlike Barry White circa 1978. The frontal lobes of our brains act like sponges and are drawn to the rocks where we press our buttocks against them until a feeling of fulfillment fills us up. The next person we meet will then fall in love with us. See, Science bitches.