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Persistent Close Air Support (PCAS) is a DARPA program that seeks to demonstrate dramatic capability improvements in close air support (CAS) capabilities by developing a system to allow continuous CAS availability and lethality to Joint Terminal Attack Controllers (JTACs).The program will give JTACs the ability to visualize select and employ munitions at the time of their choosing from optionally manned/unmanned aerial attack platforms.PCAS was to demonstrate using an A-10 Thunderbolt II modified for optionally manned operation however the program did not seek to remove pilots from the cockpit of A-10s or other manned military aircraft.
