Sharon Weinberger
Wired
March 22, 2008
It hasn’t even flown yet, but defense company Northrop Grumman says its killer drone can do everything from ballistic missile defense to “manhunting” for “irregular force attack.”
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At a press briefing earlier this week in Washington, Scott Winship, Northrop’s vice president and program manager of Navy Unmanned Combat Air Systems showed a PowerPoint slide with so many mission acronyms that even he admitted he didn’t know off the top of his head what some of them were. I managed to jot down a few, but they included: SCAR, ESM, SOF support, CAS interdiction and SEAD/EW. That’s a mouthful. The big mystery was SCAR; it turns out to stand for strike-coordinated armed reconnaissance.
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