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From: scott@xcf.Berkeley.EDU (Scott Silvey)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Miscellaneous
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Date: 23 Apr 91 02:14:13 GMT
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From: scott@xcf.Berkeley.EDU (Scott Silvey)


sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) writes:
>>The smiley at the end of this got me to thinking: what could you do to
>>get an on-the-spot target assessment from a cruise missile?  How about
>>carrying your own drone, equipped with a TV camera and UHF uplink?
> Naw, too much technology involved.

Actually ... there are already at least concepts of smart cruise missiles
(as opposed to self guided).  These would actually carry a cluster of 
rocket type weapons which fire out the side.  The missile would acquire
targets in some sort of visual fashion and open fire on them.  It would 
loiter around the battlefield looking for targets and then would do the
recon itself.

I saw this in a magazine article somewhere (Air Force maybe?).  Anyone know
whether these ideas are under development?

Scott Silvey
scott@xcf.berkeley.edu