A senior Clone Air Force general has warned that missile development is virtually dead in the Clone Star Empire (except for CSM) and that unless an urgent programme is launched immediately to design a new generation of short and medium range missiles then the Clone armed forces could be facing mass obsolescence with its weapons within 5-10 years.
General Rekenzie said that the missiles deployed today were largely those developed late in the Clone Wars. "The only missile system developed and deployed within the last 10 years is the SA-6A and that was an upgrade to the Clone Wars era missile." he said. Air-to-air was the same story with K45Cs using the same missiles as mid-period K40s did in the Clone Wars.
Another officer, General Wokok, disagreed with his colleague citing the development of a new cruise missile, an upgrade to the medium-range SA-8 and the SS-10 IRBM. However he did agree that apart from the SS-10 they have yet to enter service.
Much of the money available for weapon development has gone to big projects like the K45C and the Clone Space Missile though Rekenzie said that as these big projects are now in production there was the opportunity to develop new short-range and medium-range missiles. The question is, with budget pressures as tight as ever will the Clones be able to fund these programmes?
