why don’t we use drone/spy satellite to monitor enemies planting roadside bombs?
we have these hi-tech gadgets which should be utilized to safe-guard the lives of our troops.don’t tell me it costs too much.don’t tell me we don’t have enough man-power.that is unacceptable excuse!if we utilize these advanced tech 24 hours a day,we should be able to spot unusual activities of our enemies planting bombs on the roads that our troops travel.then we can avoid casualties!
Satellites cannot fly around in space like an airplane. It take a lot of time to move one into an area for photos. The satellites continue to orbit the earth and can only stay over an area for a couple of minutes. The enemy know this and can calculate when they will be overhead. They just wait till its gone and go plant the bombs.
The Drone planes that can stay aloft for long periods of time are very expensive. The number required to cover all the roads in Iraq would be extremely high. The military just doesn’t have the money to purchase and operate that many Dromes. Remember it’s not just the cost of the Drones themselves. You have to buy the control centers and additional equipment to operate those centers. Then you need to hire more soldiers and train, feed them, pay them and provide all the other benifits they get. VERY COSTLY!
There is a way to stop them. When caught you kill them. No trial or anything else.
In the 70’s we proved the peons in the terrorist groups will soon quit and go home when they see their leaders and fellow members being assinated.
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Arbitrage
Not sure, but probably because we don’t have enough of them. And if we did make enough of them, people would complain about the costs. People always complain about costs.
These drones can only see a small area, and they don’t get good fuel milage, so you’d constantly have to send new ones up all the time. And tons of them for every section of the road.
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nerdyjohn
The thinking that we can use our technology to do all reconnaissance and intellegence-collecting is similar to the thinking that we can use our technology to win wars. Wars arn’t won by technology. They are won by people. As Col. Boyd said, "People, Ideas, Hardware, in that order!"
We do try to use drones and spy satellites to monitor enemies, but the problem is that we do not have enough of them to cover all of Iraq and Afghanistan.
First, the drones are costly, but not as costly as spy satellites. There is only a limited supply of them. More are being built, but that takes time as well. Some are even shot down and need to be replaced. Others break down and need to be repaired. Spy satellites are also used to monitor other parts of the world, so we cannot dedicate all satellites to look at Iraq and Afghanistan. One cannot deny that these things happen and there are budgetary concerns that the military has to worry about.
Secondly, there needs to be enough people who are trained in operating, maintaining the drones and analyzing the information, passing the information on, sending people to go intercept and disarm the IEDs, etc. Also, there needs to be enough troops who can travel and get there in time to disarm the IEDs and kill or arrest the enemies who planted those IEDs. That requires a lot of manpower, and requires heavy communication between many different units, which is difficult and complex to do. For 24 hours a day, that would require even more manpower.
Third, the enemy may figure out a way to bypass the technology. For infrared, they can come out in the daytime to do something. The heat in the environment may disrupt seeing what’s going on. Or they might stay in urban areas (which is what they already do) or stay indoors to avoid being seen by drones and satellites. When our troops patrol the urban area, BOOM! And you can’t see it coming. If there is a will, there is a way. Human intelligence would be only way to deter this. There are limitations to everything; there is no technology that is a miracle cure-it all solution.
This suggestion, while it does make sense and would work if we had the resources, is at this time unrealistic and too simple. One must take in account manpower, cost, etc; factors that military and business leaders have to think about in every day situations to get a job done. The truth is, we have limited resources and we have to know how to allocate it to do different things at the same time.
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oddball
Satellites cannot fly around in space like an airplane. It take a lot of time to move one into an area for photos. The satellites continue to orbit the earth and can only stay over an area for a couple of minutes. The enemy know this and can calculate when they will be overhead. They just wait till its gone and go plant the bombs.
The Drone planes that can stay aloft for long periods of time are very expensive. The number required to cover all the roads in Iraq would be extremely high. The military just doesn’t have the money to purchase and operate that many Dromes. Remember it’s not just the cost of the Drones themselves. You have to buy the control centers and additional equipment to operate those centers. Then you need to hire more soldiers and train, feed them, pay them and provide all the other benifits they get. VERY COSTLY!
There is a way to stop them. When caught you kill them. No trial or anything else.
In the 70’s we proved the peons in the terrorist groups will soon quit and go home when they see their leaders and fellow members being assinated.
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