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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Honestly nothing.
The doctrine most state level actors are turning towards is to overwhelm air defense using drone swarm tactics and while CIWS is trying to knock all the drones out of the air sneak a couple of antiship missiles.
Modern conflict has shown how effective and efficient drone swarm tactics are. Antiship missiles easily run over $1 million a pop, “kamikaze” drones $20,000 or less.
Mix them together and a bad day happens.
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