On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 04:28:27 GMT, Chad Irby wrote:

In article ,
Scott Ferrin wrote:

". . .The low-observable, 7,500-lb. unmanned aircraft will be
physically small enough that one can be carried under each wing.

That's... interesting. Especially since the Minion is 3/4 the size of
the X-45.

That "use two pylons" idea from the first post is probably right, then.
Or maybe they're going to make a special rig to replace the pylons with
a single release point?

We definitely need pictures.


It's wings fold like those on the JASSM. I'd think that if they
wanted to do it with no modifications they'd use a bracket that
attached to the two hardpoints on each wing and then attach the UCAV
to the center of that. Depending on clearances they could probably do
something similar on the F-35- barely.