thanks for the kudos of accusing me of fishing, but I'm sure that if my intentions were that oriented I would have asked some questions!.
To answer some of the points aimed at me
1) I'm sure the picture was just a convenient stock "funny looking King Air" which happened to be available
2) Of course the King Airs will have a satellite uplink: its a data backup in case they get shot down. BUT its a backup - its not a realtime data processing link
3) Satellite bandwidth is satellite bandwidth. Frequency / polarisation / waveband / location are all irrelevant. All that matters is the data transmission rate available on the bird, and the ability of the groundstation to talk to it. And if you are timesharing on a commercial platform (as Corporall Clott implied) then you're **** out of luck if the commercial needs outweigh the meagre spending ability of the military