I’ve read about many instances of Houthi drone attacks and missiles being successfully intercepted by US warships. I have no doubt that these ships are capable of completely neutralizing these types of attacks in a vacuum… but given the cost disparity between the drones/missiles and the defense equipment used to stop them… what’s stopping the opposition from spamming so many at once that the ships can’t keep up?
Instead of repeated, futile attacks, what would happen if the opposition stock piled all of their resources and launched them at once, in waves, one right after the other?
Surely there must be some finite limit to the amount of defensive ammunition (not sure of the right term here) the ships are able to carry at sea.
Is it just a matter of the ships being so well equipped that any force capable of exhausting their supplies is simply impractical- even if the drones are pennies on the dollar in terms of comparative cost?
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This is exactly how Hamas managed to push through Israel’s “Iron Dome”.
If you lob enough — massive numbers — of rockets and drones, something is eventually going to make it through. This is starting to play out more and more as it gets cheaper and cheaper to build and launch drones. Launching million dollar missiles to intercept five thousand bucks worth of drone is a painful burn and if enough drones are incoming, eventually CWIS needs reloading and missile tubes are empty.
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