Absolutely the Navy has the technology to do exactly that.<br /><br />The DDG78 (USS Porter), which I was aboard for the commissioning of, had video conferencing capability. <br /><br />Squirt the bird, video conference back to mainland, take a feed from the video conferencing unit on the mainland, and give it to a satellite truck, which squirts the bird again and downlinks to the news stations. Trivial. Have it up and running in five minutes.<br /><br />I do agree though that opsec wouldn't allow for it. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>.</p><p><font size="3">bipartisan</font> (<span style="color:blue" class="pointer"><span class="pron"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode" size="2">bī-pär'tĭ-zən, -sən</font></span></span>) [Adj.] Maintaining the ability to blame republications when your stimulus plan proves to be a devastating failure.</p><p><strong><font color="#ff0000"><font color="#ff0000">IMPE</font><font color="#c0c0c0">ACH</font> <font color="#0000ff"><font color="#c0c0c0">O</font>BAMA</font>!</font></strong></p> </div>