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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I have doubts as to whether they even want to. Sure saber rattling and lobbing some rockets to build local support and keep the US from getting too involved makes sense, but not inviting a real retaliation by sinking a ship. My understanding is the Houthi (and I may be recalling the totally wrong faction) are the ones who are against hereditary control? They probably want the US to stay out of it more than anything. But I could be totally wrong. It just makes more sense to me to pretend to try to sink the boats.
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