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I thought the Phalanx was exactly the type of defense system that drone swarms were more or less designed to penetrate. Sure, it can put out an unreasonable amo

I thought the Phalanx was exactly the type of defense system that drone swarms were more or less designed to penetrate. Sure, it can put out an unreasonable amount of lead (tungsten? uranium?) downrange but the number of disparate targets it can engage per second is actually quite limited. It's vulnerable to being swarmed. Sorta reminds me a Schlock comic: https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2002-04-12 https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2002-04-12

KineticLensman 2y ago
Ha! Not seen Schlock before. I agree that a Phalanx can be swarmed but I'm having problems envisaging drone-on-drone attritional combat involving a capital ship lasting for vey long. If you (capital ship owner) are attacking a peer state it can probably afford to swarm you repeatedly over several days also throwing in plenty of additional standoff missiles, perhaps something ballistic, a sub or two, probably others I haven't thought of. You'd probably get away with it handling intermittent Houthi attacks in the Red Sea but in a serious war I think the logistics would get you in the end.