It seems like the more cheap and mobile ways to deliver firepower are developed, the more useless and suicidal the old, heavy ways are. Ship may beat drone 99% of the time, but guess what costs way less than 1% of a ship?
I read somewhere that a single Phalanx CIWS bullet cost more than a drone that could take the entire system out before the heavy drones/cruise missiles were sent.
It seems like the more cheap and mobile ways to deliver firepower are developed, the more useless and suicidal the old, heavy ways are. Ship may beat drone 99% of the time, but guess what costs way less than 1% of a ship?
The transformation of quantity into quality.
I read somewhere that a single Phalanx CIWS bullet cost more than a drone that could take the entire system out before the heavy drones/cruise missiles were sent.