How do you think the Buccaneer will compare to the Gladius?asked by Semphus Rithorn
Overall, the Buccaneer, if you put them side by side, the Buccaneer has, in terms of guns, what the Gladius has in terms of missile and ordnance capability, and vice versa, where the Gladius has got some guns on it that can hold its own, but it really has a crap load of missiles, versus the Buccaneer just having the five pretty decent guns that it can put to bear on a target. Gladius to Buccaneer, overall, they're sort of staged around that same point. A lot of the Gladius tuning, handling and stuff like that is still where we're looking at starting when we get to the actual build-out on the Buccaneer and start putting its flight characteristics in place, but then giving it its own distinctions to make it different from the Gladius, but still in that same relative class.