Yep, also the

Posted by jack cain on Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 6:59PM :

In Reply to: Re: An A-10 in Iraq posted by Lew VB on Tuesday, April 15, 2003 at 9:30PM :

SR-71 was well. If we still had those flying we could have gotten realtime intelligence instead of waiting for the satellites to come into range.

A lot of people don't realize that satellites are only capable of capturing 15 minutes of images every 90 minutes and that it takes days to reposition them. That and If I remember correctly we only have two of them currently orbiting and one definitely has to keep an eye on North Korea.

For the cost of one of the satellites the SR-71 could have been kept flying for another thirty years.

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• There's an SR-71 Blackbird on display - Russ/Wyo 7:29PM 04/16/2003
  • Re: There's an SR-71 Blackbird on display - Land 11:23AM 04/18/2003
  • Re: There's an SR-71 Blackbird on display - Gary DeMoss 11:45PM 04/17/2003
  • There's ALSO a SR-71 Blackbird on display... - Eric B. 0:03AM 04/17/2003
    • Re: There's ALSO a SR-71 Blackbird on display... - Joe Cimoch 2:25PM 04/17/2003
      • Must read this book - Jack Cain 8:59PM 04/17/2003
        • I'll second that - Tim H. 1:34PM 04/18/2003
    • Re: There's ALSO a SR-71 Blackbird on display... - Dave Maher 8:19AM 04/17/2003
      • YEP! - Eric B. 9:41AM 04/17/2003

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