(phil hunt) wrote in message . org...
On 20 May 2004 22:05:54 -0700, Eric Moore wrote:
There has been some talk of mounting a 40mm weapon on a Dragonfly UAV.
See:

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/...ewID=news_view

But I'm not sure if this will ever make it past the concept stage.

Does this sound like a practical idea?

Sounds practical to me.

A place where Metal Storm might be useful is as part of an anti-ship
missile firing 40 mm or 80 mm shells. These might have a range of
2-5 km, which would outrange CIWS being used against the AShM
(though they wouldn't outrange anti-missile missiles, except for
short range ones).

Another idea would be for a UAV to drop large numbers of small
guided bombs -- something like the 81 mm and 120 mm guided mortar
shells that currently exist -- onto a target.


There's already a weapon like that, it's called "Viper Strike". See:

http://www.defense-update.com/direct...per-strike.htm