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I don't know where you got your 6billion dollar price tag from, but its false. Aside from that, your calculation based on cost price alone is simplistic and faulty.
You have to take in the full gamut of cost price, running costs and profits (yes, satellites make a profit).

Total cost of a drone plus service cost per year if operational round year= US$4.5 million
Total cost hurricane-watch satellite mission cost =$290 million

Drones are cheaper enh? How did you do that math?
Do you think satellites need fuel to propel themselves? Do you think they need engineers to service them up in space? Do you realise how long they last? etc etc

The cheapest satelite cost 6billion dollars. The cheapest predator SR32 costs $100,000.

Do the math urself.

The news is old enh? And of cause, terrorists have grown too small to be photographed from space too.
What an acrobatic display of buffoonery!

I de hail ooooooooo!!!

Drone is cheaper, effective and instant.

Interactive with drone is real-time.

Drone can launch a missile.

Drone can chase.

However both Satelites and Drone can be hijacked electronically.

Mr Baboon. Satelite dumb

The United States government has made a series of attacks on targets in northwest Pakistan since 2004 using drones (unmanned aerial vehicles) controlled by the Central Intelligence Agency's Special Activities Division.[4] These attacks are part of the United States' War on Terrorism campaign, seeking to defeat Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants in Pakistan.[4] Most of these attacks are on targets in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas along the Afghan border in Northwest Pakistan. These strikes have increased substantially under the Presidency of Barack Obama.[5] Some media refer to the series of attacks as a "drone war."[6][7]
Pakistan's government publicly condemns these attacks, but has secretly shared intelligence with the United States[8] and also allegedly allowed the drones to operate from Shamsi Airfield in Pakistan until 21 April 2011, when 150 Americans left the base.[9] According to secret diplomatic cables leaked by Wikileaks, Pakistan's Army Chief Ashfaq Parvez Kayani not only tacitly agreed to the drone flights, but in 2008 requested Americans to increase them.[10] However, Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik said, "drone missiles cause collateral damage. A few militants are killed, but the majority of victims are innocent citizens."[11] The strikes are often linked to Anti-American sentiment in Pakistan and the growing questionability of the scope and extent of CIA activities in Pakistan.
Reports of the number of militants versus civilian casualties differ.[12] Daniel L. Byman from the Brookings Institution suggests that drone strikes may kill "10 or so civilians" for every militant killed.[13] In contrast, the New America Foundation has estimated that 80 percent of those killed in the attacks were militants.[14] The Pakistani military has stated that most of those killed were hardcore Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants.[15] The CIA believes that the strikes conducted since May 2010 have killed over 600 militants and have not caused any civilian fatalities, a claim that experts disputed and have called absurd.[12] Based on extensive research, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism found that between 391 - 780 civilians were killed out of a total of between 1,658 and 2,597 and that 160 children are reported among the deaths. The Bureau also revealed that since President Obama took office at least 50 civilians were killed in follow-up strikes when they had gone to help victims. More than 20 civilians have also been attacked in deliberate strikes on funerals and mourners. Tactics that have been condemned by legal experts.[16][17][18] Barbara Elias-Sanborn has also cautioned that, "as much of the literature on drones suggests, such killings usually harden militants' determination to fight, stalling any potential negotiations and settlement."[19]
Drone strikes were halted in November 2011 after NATO forces killed 24 Pakistani soldiers in the Salala incident.[20] Shamsi Airfield was evacuated of Americans and taken over by the Pakistanis the next month.[21] The incident prompted an approximately two-month stop to the drone strikes, which resumed on January 10, 2012.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_attacks_in_Pakistan

Beside, that your news is old. Check that out.

It is the latest technology in tows. Mr dumbassssss

AMerica kill Terrorist with Satelite ?

The funniest Joke in town.

Amusements on nairaland

Now let me clue you in satelite man.

There is what we call Predator drones. They do the dirty work of satelite more efficient.

They carry radio waves to Intelligence gathering stations.
They have supersonic camera.
They disect GPS data
They are armed with intelligent guided missiles.
They are stealth

You are too low and worthy of arguign with. U just argue for the sake of argument.

Grow up satelite man

[size=18pt]AMerica kill Terrorist with Satelite ?[/size]

The funniest Joke in town.

Amusements on nairaland

Stop being silly, you are doing yourself no good.
Satellites are regularly used to track and kill terrorists across the World. Please get an education and stop talking tonnes of bullshiit.
First it was that satellites could only operate radio waves, now it is the daftest arguments about the US needing a database to track its citizens. Dude, pardon me, but you sound really really are daft. Is it from constant practice?

There is a vast array of ways outside photographs for satellites to track you (and none involves "radio waves" ). Ok?
If you like, go join boko haram. There are eyes in the sky that will be used in the near future to ferret you out.

Which hole did u just loosed from ?

[size=18pt]AMerica kill Terrorist with Satelite ?[/size]

Are you reading news lately ?

America kill Terrorist with Drones ?

Go read new man.

Stop disgracing yourself. Idiotic baboon

And stop disgracing Nigerians.

oyb, thank you.
Leave that lizard, let him continue nodding till infinity. Their is nothing you can do to lizards.

When a lizard does a good thing, its nod. When it did the reverse he nods too.

Keep your fool daram. Mr agama lizard

My point is.

When you are tracking unknown target like Alqaiada/boko haram, you use drone. America use drone, because AMerica does not have enough record/information of these people. No central database in Iraq/Pakistan. That is why they operate drone to track them.

If you have a central Dbase of your citizen like US home land, you can track your citizen with Satelite.

Man dont argue blindly. You are a Nigerian. You know Nigerian government has no record/information of its citizen. Stop pretending as if you are in the USA.

This is Nigeria.

Argument or bashing aside. The fact is "We dont know who these boko harams are"

The fulanis that kill people in Jos. Does the FG knows them ?

They hide in bush and migrate hapharzrdly without a pattern. They are similar to alqaida/alqanis.

I know you are knowledgeable, but u just dont listen

Listen man.

Master dumbeee!

This is a public website. Stop portraying Nigerians as retarded here.

Stop posting area photo of towns here. We are talking about tracking. U are post photos.

The service, known as the Satellite Monitoring and Remote Tracking System or SMART, uses Global Positioning System (GPS) technology to track the location of offenders 24 hours a day, seven days a week. SecurityLink is offering the service to corrections agencies nationwide through an agreement with Palm Harbor, Fla.-based Pro Tech Monitoring, Inc., which developed the technology.

"The service gives corrections agencies the ultimate electronic monitoring solution when they need it most," said Ed Maier, director of SecurityLink's Electronic Monitoring Solutions Group. "With the continuing rise in prison costs, the number of offenders in alternative programs, like home incarceration or work release, has doubled to more than 70,000 since 1995."

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/gps-99a.html
http://media.csosa.gov/blog/2012/04/gps-tracking-of-criminal-offenders-in-washington-d-c/

Google drone, and see what is used for.

U are even a disgrace to all retardeeeen

Lol! I have posted a pic taken by our satellite. Its visual proof sir, not not pack of lies and bullshiit about "radio waves. GPS, cordinate data of an object."

I'm sure its hard to be a dunce, so I wonder how you cope!

Click on this link to see our boys at work: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14679166

Olodo!

A first picture should be released from NigeriaSat-2 in the coming days. This is a much more powerful platform, able to resolve details on the Earth's surface just 2.5m across.

Few countries in the world have access to such a capability.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14679166

Dunce.

Dr. Agama lizard,
You keep proving me right.

U keep posting (still) picture of the world. The relevance of this picture to the topic in discussion requires one to question the viability of your mental state.

Chief Retardeeen officer. You are the best. There is no point arguing with you anymore.

U won!!!!!

End of story

Shut the phuck up dunce.
When you have made yourself look a fool, the best thing is to withdraw and stop making a bigger fool of yourself.

Only a fool would think that satellite tracking requires a database. Only a fool would argue that drones carry camera's while satellites don't.
The image below is a pic of Aukland (New Zealand) taken by a Nigerian satellite, they have a high enough resolution to track cars with close up shots.

Dude, you are stup!d.

Its so lame arguing with a retarded man. Its like arguing with a nincompooop!
They will never listen. Man, If you prove stubborn to learn, then shove ur incomplete knowlegde in ur asssss and lets breath.

What has taking a satelite view of a town got to do with tracking an object ?

You keep saying the word "Fool Fool fool". It says much about you. You are not just a fool. But a hardened one.

The subject has nothing to do with IT, but IQ. Read up at least before contributing.
When the US tracks terrorists in the Middle East, is it done with a database? When you take pictures, does your video (or still) camera need a database?

I think you need a tutorial.

Americans used drones to track terrorist in the middle east. Drones carries Camera. Drones provide a view and target for military.
Drone can chase/track a single target.

Satellites carries radio waves. GPS, cordinate data of an object.
It is a target you identified that you can track with a satellite. If you dont have the data of whom u are to track, then satelite is not the option.

Listen and stop arguing igno man.

E.g Nigerian streets and roads has no standard numbering system. This will be difficult for satelite to digest.
Oh boy. I no vex with you again. Its just that you need tutorials. You can google how satelites works.

Nigerian Government can use drones. But satelite is a joke.

WE also need ministry of Ekiti People affairs

You need a database to track people by satellite?
Don't make a fool of yourself in public, bro.

U have already fooled urself.
How will you track who you dont know ?

Do you have to be IT servy to know this?

I cant argue with an Ignoramus! A secondary school student even knows this.

[quote]Yoruba people have just wasted our hero for their silly juju beliefs!

I'm so ashamed of you for what you have just said above. Why do we Igbo people like covering our own a s s and be attacking other people a s s? The kind of evil perpetraited in a day in the East alone is worst than any evil done in any other tribe for a whole year this is honest truth and 'am not afraid to say it because honest ones amongs us know the truth of what am saying.

Yekini death is not issue of Yoruba or juju get that right what I expect a sane person to say is what cause his death and who are those that came to bundle him and what was their mission? And who gave the permission to forcefully evicted him for healing? And not nonsense blablabla Yoruba juju silly talk. No tribe has the monopoly of evil deed every tribe is guilty of it so get your head in a right place and talk something sensible rather than tribalising a sensitive issue like the death of an hero okay!!!.

This says a lot about bigot and racist. what happened to Okocha Okija shrine saga.
Lets leave Religion/bigotry out of our thinking.

FCK the FG for fooling Nigerians. Do they have a database of Nigerians ?

Hope they want to track them spiritually.

Yoruba or no Yoruba. Ibo people no dey help boko-haram carry bomb inside church ?

Another LATEST news.

A baby was born in Cameroun holding a Samsung X2 phone. And the phone is running the latest android OS.

Cameroun Government has decided to file a law suit against Samsung.

Meanwhile, Samsung lovers has started celebrating the birth of the new born baby.

A New York medical expert has claimed it is possible spiritually. He also stated that a baby with Ipad can or Amazon kindle fire can also be born.

This is one fuckign rubbish! Why cant they take the picture of the baby when he was born. Instead of showing one baby forced to hold a quran.

Abeg dont wound his hands. He is an innocent child.

Religion madness at its peak

Yeah, i was at first concerned that it is against the rule of Islam for the holy Qur'an to be delivered with impurities until I came across this in the Compass newspaper online report:

The Qur’an came in a transparent waterproof. At first glance, it looks like it was wrapped in nylon, making it difficult to flip through.

An attempt to tear off the nylon like covering was rebuffed by family members, saying that the baby’s father had yet to see it.

But Islamic scholars, who were at Kikelomo’s residence, explained that the Qur’an came in such a wrapping because it was a taboo for a woman’s blood to touch. According to them, “God knows what he is doing”.

Because it was placed there diabolically to credit Islam. But they did it wrongly.

A similar case happened in Ede, Osun state.

An Alfa went to do a diabolical writing on a tree and they called the whole world to come and watch arabic writing on the tree.

But later the alfa was bursted doing the samething behind Agbongbe Grammar school.

These people are desperate to do anything for islam.

. The last news I can ever read. Who are these ?

If you see their news trends. It is similar to this.

It was in the same that a man glued to a woman while having sex.

it is in this that a goat gave birth to a man.

Why cant they go for real news?

You guys are shameless.

You will never learn your lesson on chelsea.

You started from Valencia. Chelsea will not survive valencia. U were shamed
Napoli first leg second leg. Chelsea will not survive. Shame was the end result.
Benfica. Chelsea will not survive. Some manu fans were crying that day.
Barca. Chelsea will not survive. Chelsea will be buried at camp nou. See shame.
Tottenam - Same. Shame.

Now its Bayern munic. When Chelsea wins the league. U commit suicide. Or start another slogan - "Chelsea will not win the next champions league"


You mention chelsea's 'odyssey' to the champions league finals. That's all good. But there is this factor - luck - which played a major role. We know it's not inexhaustable, You guys shld pray you still have a cup to tap on the 19th. Else it's death knell.

So much for luck!
They won 8 games with luck. Waooow. Chelsea is living with angels of luck.

Massob jailed in their land?

Yet boko-haram members roam the street freely.

And they refuses to prosecute any of their members talkless of jailing them.

Oya Igbo internet warriors, where are you? Kindly explain this.

Chelsea will see the promise land but they will not enter.
pity Chelsea abi squadron

You guys are shameless.

You will never learn your lesson on chelsea.

You started from Valencia. Chelsea will not survive valencia. U were shamed
Napoli first leg second leg. Chelsea will not survive. Shame was the end result.
Benfica. Chelsea will not survive. Some manu fans were crying that day.
Barca. Chelsea will not survive. Chelsea will be buried at camp nou. See shame.
Tottenam - Same. Shame.

Now its Bayern munic. When Chelsea wins the league. U commit suicide. Or start another slogan - "Chelsea will not win the next champions league"

cech,drogba,mata,miereles,mikel,lampard,ashley cole,luiz,cahill,e.t.c.

gerrard, bellamy, adam, lucas, enrique, kelly, kuyt, aureilo, spearing, coates,

Can you compare these two setup of players ? Joke.

Compare gerrad with drogba ? LOL.

If the both teams parade these players, we all know what will happen especially chelsea current form. Jokes

Same old news. Everyday "FG to release the names of boko sponsor". FG has no ball to release it.

Are you saying you are gonna release PDP members name ? or who are u fooling ?

FKU Jonathan/PDP.

So Chelsea get plenty haters like this?
I hope all of you u bloody haters will be back to celebrate when Chelsea win the FA cup and the Champions League. Eddiotts!

Dont you know the meaning of "Jealous" ?

They have been unbeaten for the past few weeks. Plus, their achievement in champ league.

Is that not enough for them hate ?

Its a normal thing.

same old stories. The sponsors/PDP members are somewhere enjoying their selfs and SSS/GEJ cant touch them.

Who is a chemical seller when u have his sponsor jailed? Nigeria...a waste land