Heads-up fighter dudes — all those years of shooting at hapless drones may soon be over:
Comes word, courtesy Defense Industry Daily that the QF-4 may be getting a new capability — to bite back:
Yep — that’s a QF-4 firing the missile, an unmanned QF-4. No word on if it’s an AAM or ASM (article notes that initial releases said it was a HARM, but those references have subsequently been pulled back), so our SWO buds better not be chuckling too hard yet either…
Folks – the “official” fundraiser finishes tomorrow, but don’t let that artificial calendar mark stop you from adding CWtT to your holiday contribution list. Attached below is one more reason to for pitching in to this worthy cause: Thanks to all of you for the multitude of posts about Cooking with the Troops.  As a…
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Your humble scribe is back from TDY to the land of real mountains and clear air — but a land also infected with the blot of PPT-itis. Alas, he returns to the epicenter of all that is malodorous about this infliction from Redmond, to find his classified and unclassified email boxes packed to the gills…
…and now for something a little different…
Have at it…
Here is my wish for you and your loved ones – for a warm, Spirit-filled Christmastide; prayerful for our countrymen who go in harm’s way and for wisdom on the part of our leaders in their decisions. Hope for the year to come — hope for peace, salvation for the lost and safety and prosperity…
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The USAF release I looked at (just now) seemed to indicate that it was a new high speed anti-radiation AGM associated with a Navy program. That would seem to indicate something associated with the HSAD, as this Ares article states.
Mike- from your article: “HSAD combines the seeker head and guidance electronics of the AGM-88 HARM with a wingless airframe and a ramjet propulsion system.”
The missile in the picture is not “wingless”… and I actually think it might be a Standard ARM. But I am not sure.