Boeing granted patent for B1 lancer Gunship

[alimobin memon]

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...he-b-1b-into-a-gunship-bristling-with-cannons

U.S. Patent 9,963,231 B2 was awarded on May 8th to Boeing. It depicts a number of cannon configurations that can be stowed in a B-1B's weapons bays and extended down outside of those bays for use. Our good friend and marvelous patent sleuth Stephen Trimble of Flightglobal.com was the first to find the patent.

The patent certainly envisions different concepts that could be used to convert the 'Bone' into a heavy-hitting gunship without making many if any permanent changes to its existing configuration or outer mold-line. The cannons are shown mounted in various manners with elaborate mechanisms that allow them to tuck neatly inside the B-1B.

 

[scionofPakwattan]

Are these for regular cannons or should we be expecting some high tech fire power in the shape of a rail gun or something? or is there simply not enough power for something like that?

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

WTF I doubt they are going to put traditional weapons in an expensive B1. There must be something more to this.