Strike on North Korea

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Not sure what you mean Sky

Something that war theorists think would be common at a major engagement at sea nowadays: naval units firing their missiles in huge quantity and short time, creating swarms of vampyres (=missiles) that overload the target's distance and point defence, or has it running out of counter-missile missiles. Create a more densly saturated attack volley than the target has capacity to neutralise. Thats is also the main porboem that Ronny's Star Wars idea failed over: the Russians could have saturated the atmosphere with more incoming warheads than the US mainland had missiles and platforms to shoot down.

If you know the target area for an airstrike is defended by four missile carriers with four missiles each, what do you do if you want to be certain at least one plane gets through to strike? You send not 4x4=16 but you send 17 planes at least.

Thats what is so bad about our modern time defence tehcnology. It is costly, super-capasble, but is available only at very limited numbers. Huge numbers have a charm of their own. And every loss of one Hightech platform by the defender weighs even the more heavy and has more costly consequences.

Royal Navy dilemma, anyone? Good quality units, but ridiculously small numbers now?