We need to build more drones. We should be building motherships to host drones.
Aircraft carriers are already obsolete. We're building USS John F. Kennedy. It costs $12.8 billion.
The problem with that is Iran could build 1,000 drones to overwhelm one of our aircraft carriers and we cannot shoot down all the drones.
Look at the results, a bunch of goat herders wearing flip flops aka Houthis using drones and missiles supplied by Iran have basically shutdown shipping in the Red Sea.
Our only answer is shooting a couple million-dollar missiles at a $20,000 or less drone, the asymmetry of that kind of warfare doesn’t add up for long.
We are to invested in the next billion dollar wonder weapon that will get overwhelmed by a bunch of cheaper alternatives that can be easily made and are effective.
>> We need to build more drones.
Drones are a low margin commodity weapon.
>> We should be building motherships to host drones.
Far too simple and cheap for a capital ship. Not enough shipyard union labor required to build one.
>> Aircraft carriers are already obsolete.
Yeahbut, they are a high margin ship, and building lots of them floats the union labor boat as well as the military-industrial boat. So to speak.
C’mon, man! Get your head properly aligned on this. Good times!
Yes, Drones are clearly the way war is going. We need to develop good/sophisticated ones as well as cheap ones that can resist jamming and master swarm attacks.
We launched >200 aircraft carriers (of various types) between 1942-1945.
Right now it takes nine years to build one.