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UK Royal Navy vessels are unable to attack Houthi positions in Yemen because they lack the necessary missiles, it has been revealed 😂 (www.arabnews.pk)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

New technology is shifting the balance of power. Stuff like drones didn't exist until fairly recently, and western military doctrine doesn't account for them. Drones are very cheap to produce, costing mere thousands of dollars, and they're difficult to intercept. This piece of technology pretty much invalidates the whole US air defence strategy. It's simply not cost effective to use million dollar missiles to intercept cheap drones.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's simply not cost effective to use million dollar missiles to intercept cheap drones.

And yet they keep doing it! shrug-outta-hecks Economic collapse of US military when?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

I imagine the bigger problem is going to be lack of industrial capacity. Most of the supplies come from existing stocks, but once those run dry there's gonna be a problem because US can't produce missiles at the rate drones are produced.