Air Force Special Operations wants to fire cruise missiles from Reaper drones

TAMPA, Florida–Cruise missiles are getting smaller and that’s opening up ways to give older drones fighter jet-like capabilities, the head of Air Force Special Operations Command said Tuesday. “If you could use a gunship, or an MQ-9, or an OA-1K [Skyraider II] that had a small cruise missile that could go four,  five or 600 miles and hit a target, that seems like a capability that a combat commander could use,” said Lt. Gen. Michael Conley, who spoke to reporter