"AllanStern" wrote

CNN is reporting this morning that the US Mil is about to deploy U-2 spy
planes, JSTARS acft, and Rivet Joint RC-135s to search for bin Laden. They
claim that the US is going to maintain round-the-clock surveillance/search to
locate him. They say the acft will be controlling some RPVs in the search.

E-3, E-8, RC-135 are really the A-Team in Command, Control, and Communications.

The problem is, that none of them work worth a **** in mountainous terrain.

If you are going to have an air to ground war, then you really need to have the
A-Team there for the rack and stack of finding and killing targets while managing
tankers, bombers, attack assets, etc. Having seen airborne radar in action in Pakistan,
I can tell you that it will be tough work to associate all the noise and dead spots.