Originally Posted by
meleagertoo
What's the use of malleting every "known" location when there are probably far more unknown ones?
Is it acceptable to destroy every single small fisherman's boat you find? Nice! What to do about inflatables with big outboards that can be kept in a house, hut or cave? Ditto drones and even mines. Small boats are easily hidden.
It's a vain hope even with modern sensors that you'd achieve a high success rate. After all, you have to be lucky 100% of the time, they only have to be lucky once.
Exactly. Despite their pretty incredible capabilities, even the US Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps would struggle to hit every potential threat, and then keep them suppressed.
All that's needed is one drone hitting a tanker.
And if Iran really wanted to hurt the US, a ballistic missile or two fired from inland and pointed at a carrier or similarly significant capital ship.