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The article about the Hydra guided rockets ties in to something I wanted to bring up in an earlier thread, but didn’t think of until it was past its statue of limitations.
http://www.defensetech.org/archives/002123.html is the article, about Marine flyers attacking insurgent positions who needed to return to base to re-arm before returning to the fight. What I wanted to ask at the time was whether encounters like it highlighted a need for small, cheap, and guided munitions that can be carried in mass. Dropping a 500-lb bomb, guided or not, on 2 insurgents seems rather wasteful, and limits the amount of air cover that can be given to ground forces simply due to the quantity of munitions most planes can carry. With the Hydra system, it seems like at least one other person was thinking something similar.
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