Yes I remember many a canned peashoot demonstration for missile interception defense projects. And really I don't want to waste my time trying to parse if this

Yes I remember many a canned peashoot demonstration for missile interception defense projects. And really I don't want to waste my time trying to parse if this is yet another bait and switch to keep the funding rolling. I'm not saying it's not possible, but our surface navy is a bunch of sitting ducks to a semi-modern state military like China. Missile guidance can seemingly be adapted in so many ways to bypass point defenses, from raw speed, pop and drop, decoys, swarms, and other techniques. Finally, I bet cruise missile tech can be adapted quickly to drop torpedo warheads for the "last mile" if the aerial point defense is that effective and a 40-50mph ship actually is that hard for guidance to target. RE: swarms, I still remember the... was it the Millenium war exercise where a general used swarms to defeat the "good guys" and they basically stopped the exercise and forced them to restart and not use swarms? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002