Yes I understand it’s a hard problem but swarms of drones that threaten the USA, will be fought with swarms of American drones right? You can launch drones from the carriers searching for potential launch points etc.
Commercial satellite picked up an f15 banking in Gaza recently, so the ability to imagine and scan in near real-time the land and sea around carrier strike groups and other valuable assets and locations seems likely.
Other way to think about the costs are a 1 million dollar missile that takes out a $5000 rocket that’s being used to threaten billions of dollars of ships, thousands of lives, a potential ecological disaster if one sinks, and the ships are defending or “liberating” billions or trillions of dollars in resources and shipping.
Commercial satellite picked up an f15 banking in Gaza recently, so the ability to imagine and scan in near real-time the land and sea around carrier strike groups and other valuable assets and locations seems likely.
Other way to think about the costs are a 1 million dollar missile that takes out a $5000 rocket that’s being used to threaten billions of dollars of ships, thousands of lives, a potential ecological disaster if one sinks, and the ships are defending or “liberating” billions or trillions of dollars in resources and shipping.