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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There isn’t anything stopping this, if the warring party can amass the numbers needed, they will get some through.
Soviet doctrine during my time in the Sixth fleet was to shoot massive amounts of anti ship missiles at the battle group, the anti air ships only had some many missiles, then it came down to close on defenses, which are also ammo limited.
Something will always leak through and if it gets a lucky hit, kaboom, you sunk my aircraft carrier.
Now with smaller, faster drones, they can take out ships with little stings, get enough of them.
Toss in the drone ships coming at you – it just comes down to numbers, and the rate of fire vs range/detection, Lots of factors to consider,
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