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?
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.
“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.
Did they say “Raytheon” or “Made in USA” on the side?
Houthis taking orders from Slo Joe more than likely
While anyone with a brain knows we eventually have to take out the launch sites/ships, in the meantime this is great experience for the sailors, pilots, etc. You can train, and train, and train. When you get to put your training in action with live enemy fire, well, those sailors manning the consoles, computers, instruments that make all of it possible will become instructors some day.
Sometimes it is said those who cannot do, teach. In this case, the doers become the best teachers.
“The fact that the Houthis are still firing such a large number of weapons over such a short period shows how little they are deterred from doing so and, with the help of Iran, appear well-supplied to sustain their anti-shipping campaign.”
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Oh great a rag tag militia has shut down a major shipping lane and the US is appearing impotent when it comes to stopping them. I wonder how much this has cost us so far? Spain, Italy, and France have refused to be a part of “Prosperity Guardian” because they don’t want to be seen as being complicit in Israel’s war crimes by protecting their shipping. All because Netanyahu is refusing a ceasefire. It’s the tail wagging the dog at this point. The entire Global South now hates our guts and is aligning with Russia and China. Whatever benefit Israel might have been as an ally is over and our relationship with them has now become seriously deleterious to US interests. It’s time to tell them to do as we say or they can continue on their own without us.
Soon much of the oil producing nations in that region will abandon us and start cozying up to Russia and China. All this trouble because of our support of the arrogant and narcissistic Netanyahu who only cares about himself. His actions are leading Israel to destruction and we will follow right along in that direction if we don’t wake up.
Between you and me, we need to go totally medieval on there ass.
5.56mm
w00t... better than wasting $1MM missiles on them