[Sidebar: I'm getting so addicted to Loose Cannon.]
{2nd sidebar: I've got a Simrad radar and A/P on my escape pod, FWIW.}
"At this point, some readers may be thinking, so what? The Houthis are shooting at ships, but they haven’t sunk anything. The allied Navies are blasting Houthi ordinance out of the sky, and the one or two hits or ships haven’t caused much damage."
We are losing big time, and in an important way, if we are firing a pair of SM-3 missiles, costing $2 million each, at $20,000 Houthi drones. We don't have an endless stock of them. They are not built in a week. We are running out. Spending $4 million to stop a $20,000 drone is not winning.
And importantly, our destroyers cannot reload these vertical-launch missiles at sea, so when they are gone, the ship has to leave the theater to reload pier side. If we get into a kinetic scrap with Iran, these numbers and facts are going to come back to haunt us.
In light of what just happened in the news regarding “targets,” your post is so very timely. This was very informative. As you stated, I’m thinking the same is true for those geniuses using Signal: hoist by their own petard!
[Sidebar: I'm getting so addicted to Loose Cannon.]
{2nd sidebar: I've got a Simrad radar and A/P on my escape pod, FWIW.}
"At this point, some readers may be thinking, so what? The Houthis are shooting at ships, but they haven’t sunk anything. The allied Navies are blasting Houthi ordinance out of the sky, and the one or two hits or ships haven’t caused much damage."
We are losing big time, and in an important way, if we are firing a pair of SM-3 missiles, costing $2 million each, at $20,000 Houthi drones. We don't have an endless stock of them. They are not built in a week. We are running out. Spending $4 million to stop a $20,000 drone is not winning.
And importantly, our destroyers cannot reload these vertical-launch missiles at sea, so when they are gone, the ship has to leave the theater to reload pier side. If we get into a kinetic scrap with Iran, these numbers and facts are going to come back to haunt us.
In light of what just happened in the news regarding “targets,” your post is so very timely. This was very informative. As you stated, I’m thinking the same is true for those geniuses using Signal: hoist by their own petard!