From: daellis94@gmail.com   
      
   Yes, buoys have been around for a while to enable a submarine to receive and   
   transmit messages when close to the surface without actually surfacing.  While   
   it might be possible, it would hardly be ideal.  A submarine is hardest to   
   find when it can drift    
   in nice, deep water.  Moreover, it might probably have a difficult time   
   handling high volumes of radio traffic by way of satellite communications,   
   which tend to have some lag to consider.     
      
   Overall, I'd say a command post is better suited to an airborne platform.  If   
   you want to look for something particularly advanced, take advantage of the   
   nuclear jet engine projects worked by GE and Pratt and Whitney in the 1960s.    
   You could conceivably    
   stay airborne for months without needing to refuel, provided you have food   
   on-board.  You probably WOULDN'T have months of rations onboard a command and   
   control aircraft, but you would be massively better off than a c   
   emically-fuelled aircraft.   
      
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