Originally Posted by
Pious Pilot
The nation has bombed ****** out of non-bacon eaters for 23 years on and off.
Perhaps the overapplication of restraint is the problem, as with on this side of the pond.
This cost of precision armaments isn't a new question. Twenty years ago, I listened to Admiral Boorda (then our CNO) go on at length about how pointless it seemed to him to shoot Harpoon Missiles (or even Penguins) at small boats. His point on costs of weapons and targets was made pretty well, for all that he ignored how many iron bombs miss their targets ...
Within a few years, a few weapons with lower payloads (Hell Fire, some of the 25 mm chain guns) were in the Fleet and providing the local commander with a few more choices in matching munitions to targets.