Or renting it out to one of our enemies? I have no doubt in my mind that if we go all out, and we find out that France is doing something bad with that satellite, it will be "blinded" by a freak solar flare...
"Ariane Rocket Launches French Spy Satellite"
Unfortunately their volunteer holding the binoculars on the end of the rocket suffocated and exploded in the vacuum of space.
/ joke
Seriously, yes.
They will be spying on the U.S. with it, IF we don't jam it or blind it with lasers or such.
;-)
future shooting stars?
After all the spying the Soviets were doing on us, I don't expect the French are much to worry about.
I'd be more concerned with their industrial espionage and stinky cheese.
They'd be better off putting a guy with a telescope on top of that bridge they just built.
They're obviously looking for additional surrender opportunities.
Wonder if we could shoot it down. Not for any strategic
reason, just to piss-em off.
France has a 1.7T GDP and they spend 2.6B on this? My guess is they fund this over a few years, but?
Where is the return?
I presume this is to give them more advance notice to begin surrender preparations.