• Warl0k3@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        This is actually a thing - AV (and several other loitering munition manufacturers) experimented with what they were calling “daycare mode” (no, really. Fuck I hate them), where ground formations could fire a bunch of (ex: switchblades) off, then control would be taken over by CAS for transit my-ship-is-dragging-mines-style out of range of the base station to the target area for terminal control. It worked pretty well, might even be deployed now, but it was a surprisingly hard sell for the A-10 pilots whose job was to fly low & slow through an area picking up digital tethers while a bunch of jarheads aimlessly fired missiles into their flight path.

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          4 months ago

          … but it was a surprisingly hard sell …

          I’m sure lots of people were surprised.