DARPA Wants Millions to Design an Unmanned 'Flying Gun' Under Its New Gunslinger

Re:DARPA Wants Millions to Design an Unmanned 'Flying Gun' U... by blakesterz on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @04:39PM (#22360678)

I remember at some point seeing an interview with someone that was involved with the design of the A-10 Warthog and he described it as something like a gun wrapped in an airplane. Unsurprisingly this site mentions attempts to replace the A-10 Warthogs big gun.

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Re:DARPA Wants Millions to Design an Unmanned 'Flying Gun' U... by caycep on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @04:43PM (#22360708)

this smells like an attempt to update the CAS concept; kind of like an AC-130 that's more survivable or expendable with less risk to a live pilot.

That being said, I'd have expected them to make something like a Reaper with guns instead of AGMs. I'm just not sure why they are describing it as a "missile with guns" vs a "drone with guns"

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Re:DARPA Wants Millions to Design an Unmanned 'Flying Gun' U... by crocodiletears on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @03:06AM (#22363844)

Given the rough form factor they describe (I think a hellfire when I read it), I'd expect they're looking to be able to quickly deploy multiple of these things to do targeted killing or automated area denial in firefights w/o having to risk a pilot or a whole plane.

Like a swarm of mini warthogs firing 5.56 or 7.62.

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