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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So like… it’s a ship right? Even if an individual group could laid a singular attack that could deplete all of the resources of a warship, which for all intents abs purposes is infinite as far as any single conflict is concerned. Like they have more bullets periodt.
But if they start to run low they’ll just leave. Like it’s a war not a pissing contest. If they see they’ll be overwhelmed they’ll just turn and go. They can fire in every direction at all times so like… no problem. Just run and gun and hit the gas when you realize you only have enough ammo to get out of range.
Which i would like to remind you that a warship alone has more than enough armament to stave off a drone strike and rain hell on the base. The warship has better range than a drone and equal range to a missile so you’re not going to have time to actually continue your sustained strike long enough to wear out the armament.
Idk I’m not normally one to go all USA military best, but like also…. us military biggest budget.
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