Originally Posted by jamesdevice
The fact we're having to send King Airs into Afghanistan to do the job of the drones due to lack of satellite bandwidth should be enough to make you ask questions
That is NOT the reason why there are King Airs and other manned ISR platforms in theater.
It turns out that having "eyes on target" that are physically located at the same place the FMV ball is looking actually has quite a lot of value to the boots on the ground.