I thought more about these brrrrrrrt devices, just forgot their name. They can take out drones and subsonic missiles, but are useless against a kinetic force coming in at hypersonic speed.
Edit: They are called Phalanx close-in weapons system (CIWS). https://youtu.be/YQHr9TC7lXM
I thought more about these brrrrrrrt devices, just forgot their name. They can take out drones and subsonic missiles, but are useless against a kinetic force coming in at hypersonic speed.
Edit: They are called Phalanx close-in weapons system (CIWS). https://youtu.be/YQHr9TC7lXM
Phalanx they have 4 on a carrier and some on support ships but they can only engage so many targets at once. In a coordinated attack with decoys all coming into the target at once they can be overwhelmed numerically. Figure you use a ton of supersonic smart missiles augmented with hypersonic missiles. you can potentially shoot more ordinance from land than the carrier group would have enough ordinance to defend with.
Phalanx they have 4 on a carrier and some on support ships but they can only engage so many targets at once. In a coordinated attack with decoys all coming into the target at once they can be overwhelmed numerically. Figure you use a ton of supersonic smart missiles augmented with hypersonic missiles. you can potentially shoot more ordinance from land than the carrier group would have enough ordinance to defend with.
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