Posted on 12/28/2023 1:28:02 PM PST by Red Badger
I thought our F/A-18 Super Hornets were better than that.
I don’t know the procedure, but would shooting down the drones by the FA-18 pilots count toward become an ACE.
They will be happy to keep launching cheap drones and missiles forever and continue making us waste our $1 million to $4 million armaments.
A $1 million dollar missle to shoot down a $2000 drone.
If the missile costs 1000 times more than the drone, wouldn’t it be more accurate to say that the drone took down the missile?
ACE?
Maybe ‘ace’.
Instead of standing around like Wonder Woman deflecting bullets with her bracelets, might it not be better to disrupt the source of the bullets before one gets through?
Sink the Iranian vessel directing them and crystallize the launch sites these weapons originate from.
I wish we had competent leaders. The trick to stopping this onslaught is to target the source. You know, where they are being launched from.
They should get a merit badge to say “I pressed a button”.
Maybe ‘ace’.
> … might it not be better to disrupt the source of the bullets before one gets through? <
You beat me to it. Right now we’re playing a risky and expensive game of whack-a-mole. Sooner or later something will get through, and Navy personnel will die.
But for some sick reason, maybe that’s what Potato Head Biden and his handlers want.
Simple, the area is being monitored by satellite, so seeing the launch site is simple and fast. Just target their site and equipment. At some point it all traces back to an armoury.
“I thought our F/A-18 Super Hornets were better than that.”
I think they are talking about the Houthi’s weapons not hitting their marks.
(I knew that...just funning around)
If we are going to expend some expensive munitions, how about going after the launch centers? Depots? It was harder than it looked in Iraq, but worth a try.
Well it’s a little bit better than using a Missile to down a freaking Balloon.
“A $1 million dollar missle to shoot down a $2000 drone.”
That is headed toward a multi-billion dollar ship.
That would be my order, if I had the authority. Because once a weapon is launched against us, its origin is fair game.
“U.S. Central Command says the Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Laboon (DDG-58) and F/A-18 Super Hornets from the Eisenhower Carrier Strike group shot down a dozen one-way attack drones,”
Seems like after this they should have sent them to erase the launch sites and then no more attack drones.
Ah.
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