I'm sure everyone has seen the footage floating around of missiles hitting Israel.
All I have to say is that, when it's all over, I hope there's nobody left on either side still capable of shaking down the US for "aid".
Yeah, I know, it'll never happen. But one must remain optimistic.
I'd imagine what we'll see is ballistic missiles that release a thousand drones each instead of a massive blast.
Small drones can be incredibly effective, but getting them into the area is the hard part.
Iran doesn't have that capability, know why? The US, Russia and China don't have that as if they did they'd be showing it off like the biggest dick in the changing room.
Think about ALL the things you have to do to make that work, first is just getting the missile to work, then securing the payload of drones, then having said drone be remotely controlled over long distance easily.
That's the baseline, how the fuck are they going to work after being launched at terminal velocity, suddenly released at high speed and not just smash into the ground? You're better off investing in Japan's railguns where their main issue is power supply.
I don't believe that for a minute. Do you know how easy it would be to have drones self destruct? Hell even have them embedded with a code to take it and explode in a very specific place. Meanwhile we are importing Chinese drones like they are democrat voters.
It would be easier to simply rig explosives to pagers like Israel did than do any of that shit.
Having a missile full of drones shot at another country, you're better of with cyber warfare targeting critical infrastructure or just sneaking on a few crazies into the enemy country, why was resources on something that has a good chance of either not working or being intercepted?
You have no idea what capabilities the US has, because we absolutely do not show them off. The F-117 was kept black for decades before it was officially acknowledged. And they only admitted its existence because it was going into combat where everybody was going to see it.
What he described is mere engineering and not nearly as difficult to deploy as a railgun.
It sounds like there's enough moving components that it would go wrong especially when there's enough of a travel distance to reach the target.
"The Cluster Swarm involved drones packed into the Army’s existing GMLRS rockets, which carry a 180-pound payload and have a range of over 70 kilometers, or ATACMS missiles that carry a 350-pound payload over 270 kilometers" (similar in capability to Iran's missiles fired on Israel).
This is just from a casual one minute search. Apparently DoD doesn't think it's a crazy idea.
While drones are harder to deploy than cluster bomb, they make everything in the country a potential target. The devastation they can cause is really only limited by our humanity. A drone blinding anybody that looks in its general direction with high power lasers probably won't happen because even the Dick Cheneys of the world are not that evil, not because it's difficult.
Of course eventually Israel will have anti-drone devices blanketing their entire country to automatically shoot down drones, but probably not until after they suffer a debilitating drone attack.