The idea is still alive, and is being tested in various concepts. I dropped in on an unclassified AFA brief and they have tested dropping some stand-off missiles and such. The AFSOC guys don’t see this as a thing to strike at the Chinese Main Battle Fleet but rather a tool to disrupt CHYCAP logistics and merchant marine. I doubt we’ll see one in the next few years, but in five or ten…maybe.
“It does have strategic implications, but I think that’s all to the positive,” Air Force Special Operations Command boss Lt. Gen. Jim Slife said.
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