[Windflier]

Isn’t surveillance and reconnaissance the reason for military satellites?

I also think the working altitude of these craft is much too low. I’ll bet dollars to donuts that the Afghans can shoot ‘em down.

[JRandomFreeper]

FL 200 is pretty thin air. You would die up there without added O2.

Occasionally, someone on the NAS Tower frequency will say "**** 1, cleared direct to one two thousand feet." Or one five thousand feet.

a)They aren't 737s. b)They are dots or less at 15,000 ft.

I go outside to watch and listen.

Sounds like freedom.

Time to climb is amazing.

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

I’ll bet dollars to donuts that the Afghans can shoot ‘em down.

You would bet wrong. 20K ft is 4 miles.

Largest round in this house is .50BMG. I paid the price of a small Kia for the scope and subsequent mods by the factory.

One mile, if I hand it to someone that can actually see, and we use the $5.00/round Arizona Ammunition precision rounds that I stocked up on back when they were only $5.00.

Russian SAMs might hit it, but Kadaffi won't vouch for them. He wanted surface to airplane missiles, and the Soviets kept sending him surface to air missiles.

There's a reason they aren't called hittles.

/johnny