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Subject: The Royal Canadian Orbital Police
SYSOP    3/6/2013 5:48:17 AM
 
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TonoFonseca    RCOP?   3/6/2013 9:56:58 AM

The Mounties may have been our first official military, but they haven't been for a long time.  Today they are a corrupt federal organisation.  As a police force, only the Ontario Provincial Police, and maybe some municipal Quebec police forces, are more corrupt.

As for China's anti-satellite satellite... kind of obsolete, in some ways.  With all our fibre-optic cables and drones we use today, satellites are not the wave of the future.
 
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Sty0pa       3/6/2013 2:33:36 PM
Yeah, who uses GPS anyway?
 
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Slim Pickinz       3/6/2013 5:53:48 PM



As for China's anti-satellite satellite... kind of obsolete, in some ways.  With all our fibre-optic cables and drones we use today, satellites are not the wave of the future.


And what do you think those drones use as a link to the operator? A balloon with a transmitter hanging underneath?
 
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Reactive       3/6/2013 7:48:03 PM
Relay Drones - TBC  : )
 
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DClanton       3/8/2013 5:43:45 AM
you heard the man they have fiber optic cables hanging underneath. you jsut need a big ass spool of cable mounted under the drone and your good to go. I doubt the Taliban or the Chinese have mastered complicated air to air cable snipping operations yet.



And what do you think those drones use as a link to the operator? A balloon with a transmitter hanging underneath?
 
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Belisarius1234    In some cases.   3/8/2013 1:11:20 PM
Yes. It's called a retransmission node.
 
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Reactive    DClanton    3/8/2013 4:55:00 PM
No they don't use fiber optic cables but you might want to look at some of the new technologies that apply to antennae design - light and small enough enough to enable broadband communication at range on a UAV at low latency- a network of those that self-arranges gives you an adaptive, scalable and resilient system. Those can relay a message from a ground station or simply reach far enough out beyond the enemy's jamming envelope to connect to orbital assets.  
 
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