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Small Precision Munition, Mini Sensors Among SOCOM’s Aircraft-Related Needs

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Monday, October 15th, 2007

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By Michael SirakFT. WALTON BEACH, Fla.--A small-sized, air-delivered precision munition weighing only about 30 pounds that could be carried by many classes of manned and unmanned aircraft is of great interest to U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), the colonel overseeing the command's fixed-wing aircraft programs said here last week. "For us, we have got problems both from a collateral damage perspective and weight," Air Force Col. Jim Geurts, SOCOM's program executive officer for Fixed Wing Aircraft, said Oct. 10 in…

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