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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The drones you need to carry any meaningful type of weaponry on them are not the ones you get on Amazon. Even the larger more expensive drones that private owners buy have very little weight-bearing capacity. US warships are heavily armored. You need powerful explosives to even make a dent. Those types of explosives are really heavy. So the drones that can deliver that kind of payload and are quick enough to not get shot down from a mile away actually cost millions. Any drones the Houthi rebels have are probably smuggled from elsewhere or salvaged so they can’t actually manufacture them in mass. And if they did, we’d be able to locate the factory where they are doing it an turn it into a crater.
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