Anybody working on this type of technology?
Imagine having a bunch of bombs stacked up in Kuwait. When some soldier/marine in Iraq needs something to blow up, a small rocket launches a SDB or something high enough above the target area that the bomb can guide itself on target, and the rocket can return back to base. All it would cost is the gas and the bomb. No F-35, F-16, pilot, etc. No $40k per flight hour cost, just to have the plane land with 100% of their payload 90% of the time. It seems you can get the bomb in target much faster too. The second some dude calls it in, the rocket is automatically launched.
What does this board think?
Imagine having a bunch of bombs stacked up in Kuwait. When some soldier/marine in Iraq needs something to blow up, a small rocket launches a SDB or something high enough above the target area that the bomb can guide itself on target, and the rocket can return back to base. All it would cost is the gas and the bomb. No F-35, F-16, pilot, etc. No $40k per flight hour cost, just to have the plane land with 100% of their payload 90% of the time. It seems you can get the bomb in target much faster too. The second some dude calls it in, the rocket is automatically launched.
What does this board think?