Also seems like a ship like this would be a good platform to launch hundreds of drones of our own into Yemen.
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Alas, we only have the multi-million dollar sort. or very short range ones. We do not have 10s of thousands of FPV drones as used in Ukraine, and certainly none aboard any Navy ship, most of which are expensive radar and missile platforms.
Point being, why don’t we have them? Heads should roll! It’s not like most of this (cheap drone warfare) was not predicted. Cost is not much of an issue. So, what you need is a ship with lots of launching space (definitely not a frigate or destroyer, but can be far short of a large carrier), room and board so to speak for the operators and crew, workstations, the comms (ok, that’s moderately substantial), I’m probably missing something...
This “drone carrier” needs a AD destroyer nearby for defense, but, we DO have those (likely would have to pull one from somewhere else, as the few in the region already are stretched too thin already.)
The freaking world is catching on fire, mostly due to our own show of weakness; we need to get on the stick. Chop heads (figuratively!) until we get results.