Originally Posted by
rickair7777
No we won't. That's why the DoD is modifying unguided 70mm rockets with extremely cheap guidance systems. If you're not military, 70mm rockets are the small cheap ones they ripple launch from helo pods in 'Nam movies. Big bottle rockets basically.
Drones are so slow and non-reactive that it doesn't take $ophisticated systems like AIM-9/120, PAC-3, SM-2, etc to splash them.
Guess that's another fringe benefit, we got to try out out gear against some of the new asymmetric stuff before a main event in the Pacific. We can practice shooting down model airplanes with bottle rockets.
Except you know as well as I do that those systems aren’t sexy & that the service chiefs feel a constant need to justify their exorbitant budgets. We’ll be burning F-35 flight hours to turn rubble into smaller rubble, having subs launch tomahawks into empty spots in the desert where someone spotted scud launchers 3 weeks prior, C-17s flying loads of empty pallets from Dafra to Ali al Salem, only to pick up another load of empty pallets headed to the ‘Died, and sending an army of chiefs into theater to make sure people’s socks are regulation before they’re allowed to enter a chow hall in no time at all if we aren’t already. Don’t kid yourself thinking that Haliburton, Northrop Grumman, and Anduril aren’t already gearing up for the windfall and absolutely making perpetual O-faces at the prospect of another forever war in the sandbox. We’re going to spend sickening sums on this thing for years to come. I literally never want to hear another word about fiscal responsibility from anyone, of any stripe, in any position of power.