My future prediction is AA missiles will have a variety of sensors that they switch between to home in on wifi (then traDAR or visual if signal goes out) and maybe loiter above the battlefield to intercept upwards facing signals.
Also they’d have low RCS, which we’ve started to see on cruise missiles.
The line between drone and loiter missile is fuzzy. Given the focus the USA puts on its air forces (high capital investment, low manpower requirement), I’m on the side of the missiles
I think the performance of the Resistance over the last year has proven, you don’t need a Navy or an Air Force, you just need enough missiles.
In the last year we’ve had our first ballistic missile attack on a ship at sea, loitering antiair munitions taking out drones, loitering air to ground drones making mass mechanized formations a relic of the past, on every side of every conflict.
I struggle for the right word, but it’s almost a “democratization” of military power. Anti-second amendment people are right that an AR-15 is not going to stop a tank. But a cheap commercial drone rigged with explosives and a front-facing camera, will.
Tiny fighter sized AWACS, I guess.
My future prediction is AA missiles will have a variety of sensors that they switch between to home in on wifi (then traDAR or visual if signal goes out) and maybe loiter above the battlefield to intercept upwards facing signals.
Also they’d have low RCS, which we’ve started to see on cruise missiles.
The first loitering air-to-air drone that successfully took down a target drone happened in Gaza pretty early in the conflict, as far as I’m aware.
The line between drone and loiter missile is fuzzy. Given the focus the USA puts on its air forces (high capital investment, low manpower requirement), I’m on the side of the missiles
I think the performance of the Resistance over the last year has proven, you don’t need a Navy or an Air Force, you just need enough missiles.
In the last year we’ve had our first ballistic missile attack on a ship at sea, loitering antiair munitions taking out drones, loitering air to ground drones making mass mechanized formations a relic of the past, on every side of every conflict.
I struggle for the right word, but it’s almost a “democratization” of military power. Anti-second amendment people are right that an AR-15 is not going to stop a tank. But a cheap commercial drone rigged with explosives and a front-facing camera, will.