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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Self-preservation.
Whoever would do that would have to target and destroy the entirity on the US Navy in order to not have holy hell rained down on them. That would require a worldwide coordinated attack. And they would have to hope that they had more drones than could be destroyed before they could make their attacks and actually accomplish their goals.
And an attack on that scale would be met with the rest of the US armed forces.
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