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Armament Intelligence / Air Armament
Aircraft gun systems, gunship armament, rocket launchers, and release equipment; one sensing architecture, packaged per article. Nothing inside the bore. No fire-control interface. No change to baseline weapon operation. If every sensor fails, the crew still has a fully functioning weapon.
Working designators · Packages in development
Fighter Gun Systems
GAU-8/A class · A-10 host concept
The gun the A-10 exists around, on the oldest fleet in the combat Air Force. Per-gun usage and burst history, thermal exposure, and mount-interface condition, replacing hand-kept round counts with the article's own record.
M61 family · fighter-fleet host concept
The most numerous gun system in the fighter fleet, tracked today on paper, community by community. One package concept across the family: automated usage records and the first fleet-level condition picture.
GAU-22/A class · internally mounted installation
A precision internal installation where every round and every alignment matters. Mount-condition and expenditure awareness designed to surface change before the range does.
Gunship Armament
AC-130J Ghostrider host class
U.S. Air Force photograph · No government endorsement implied · DERECHO technology not shown installed.
Gunship Armament
GAU-23/A class · 30mm precision gun
Expenditure and thermal-state awareness for precision fires delivered across long station times, designed to turn experience-and-feel judgment into a stated margin.
105mm cannon class · the largest gun flying
The designed scale-up path of the BHC-81 collar now in active hardware build: tube usage history, thermal exposure, and condition-based maintenance for artillery in the air.
Rotary-Wing & Crew-Served
.50-cal crew-served and mounted weapons on rotary-wing and tiltrotor host concepts, live ammunition and barrel state at the gunner’s position.
M134-class miniguns, expenditure truth at rates beyond human tracking, with feed-system health awareness at a high level.
See the full crew-served story, including the SAA family, on the Crew-Served page
Rocket Launchers
Seven-tube 70mm launchers are firing more than they ever have, and launchers are reused with no individual usage record. BHC-70 is the package concept for per-tube usage, thermal exposure, and automated expenditure accounting, built for dispersed operations.
Suspension, Release & Stores
Racks, rails, pylons, release equipment, and captive-carry training stores carry their own unrecorded lives. The SUR family gives them per-article structural and release-event records.
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Armament Intelligence systems and packages are in development. Working designators, host classes, and imagery describe design intent and candidate applications, not installations, integrations, contracts, customers, or fielded capability. Pilot activity does not constitute operational fielding, procurement, or government endorsement. No aircraft shown or named carries DERECHO hardware; platform references are host-class concepts.