Good point.
I would like some sort of analysis of where we stand vs SRBM’s with the Standard missile system variants. One hears of this being deployed in small numbers or maybe, possibly, sometime in the future, but I don’t have any idea of where it stands now. Is it on some ships, all ships (those with Aegis and VLS) or what ?
The Israelis are more forthcoming with their progress on this stuff.
This missile looks like it was meant for portable deployment on vehicles. This suggests that it can be navalized with a box launcher and with a radar system add-on. The Standard missile/Aegis system basically requires that a ship be built around it. Thats fine if there are enough properly equipped escorts in a carrier group, but I can see where it may prove inadequate to a saturation attack.
buwaya:
"it may prove inadequate to a saturation attack." I don't even know what that term "saturation attack" means -- 10 missiles, 100 missiles?
If our carrier group in a danger zone has ten missile destroyers with nearly 100 anti-missiles each, and each ship has additional close-in systems for shooting down missiles which make it through longer-range defense, then how many bad-guy missiles are needed to "saturate" such defenses?
This surely brings to mind the old Spartans at Thermopylae: when told the Persians have so many archers their arrows will block the sun, Leonidas responded, "good, then we will fight in the shade, hooah".
Our guys might have to fight in the shade, as in effect, they did at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941.
But what enemy would want to start nuclear World War Three against the most powerful military on the planet?
