Originally Posted by
TheWestCoast
It's expensive to use the missile, but the consequences of NOT using the missile could be far more expensive in terms of lives or material lost on the ground. Hopefully APKWS will make this problem cheaper to solve.
For the bigger Class UAS maybe, but ask the Saudis how it’s going burning Patriot and AMRAAM against the UAS threat. Even they are wincing at the cost and they are on the receiving end most days.
But the point stands we haven’t got a credible GBAD capability right the way up from tactical to strategic levels of warfare. And you can’t put all your eggs into one basket and hope there’s going to be a Typhoon in the right place at the right time on the off chance. Plus as soon as the threat morphs into missiles rather than slow moving UAS then it’s game over for deployed and home base forces.
And a quick look at the enemy ORBAT - both state and militia - says we’ve already passed that point.