glojo
You;re right - the old Ark would have been better, I was only considering what we still had available, or may be able to regenerate
Jimlad1
just because the major aircraft companies have moved on, it doesn't mean the skills to build a cheap disposable airframe no longer exist. There are any number of engineering companies who have the metal-bending skills required
As for the comments re accuracy - all the hardware required to give decent targetting ability is built into any modern mobile phone. You just have to provide the control interface from it to the missile - which is just a matter of writing the code
As to your other comments. Building a self-loading magazine is a basic engineering problem. Explosion risk? No worse than sitting on a tanker. Probably safer as theres less flammable liquid involved. In fact that would be the only major problem - devising a safe automated fuelling system. But maybe even that could be resolved by using gel fuels.