Small Aircraft Weaponization. ATK has created a palletized mount for its Mk-44 Bushmaster automatic cannon for integration onto small aircraft that is generating “numerous inquiries from potential international customers for that solution,” says Mark DeYoung, the company’s president and CEO. The company displayed a version of the palletized gun system at the Farnborough Air Show in Britain earlier this summer on an Alenia MC-27 gunship, he says. DeYoung adds that “Coming out of Farnborough there was a lot of excitement about shifting ATK’s special mission aircraft business from a sensor business to a weaponization business.” He also says that the Air Force has designated the Mk-44 for operational use on airborne platforms.