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.
"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.
I don't deny DoD not working on it, hell they came up with 'sword missile' when you want to say 'fuck you in particular' to one guy, but I doubt Iran has the capability in time for it to MATTER.
By the time they get something like this working, Israel would have taken the territory it wants and the local enemies will be either eliminated or greatly diminished and Trump will be back in office to restructure and reinforce the US military.
That's why I started out with saying I wouldn't underestimate Persians. They're not Arabs!
I wouldn't expect a weapon like this for several years, but I do think they are using these attacks to gain intel on the Dome like what it's actual effective range is and that sort of thing.