Darpa Demonstrates All-Digital Persistent Close Air Support

Aviation Week (online registration required): Technology to turn any combat aircraft into a precision close-air-support (CAS) platform has been demonstrated by Darpa and could hold a key to digitally interconnecting air and ground forces without long and costly aircraft upgrades. The Persistent Close Air Support (PCAS) program, for which Raytheon is systems integrator, is winding up with the completion of flight tests involving a U.S. Air Force A-10 and ground demonstrations on a U.S. Army AH-64 Apache and a special-operations unmanned ...

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