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It's hard to know these thing unless someone tries it, but probably not. Air defences are difficult to overwhelm. Gaza/Hamas recently tried to overwhelm Israel
by netcan 11y ago
It's hard to know these thing unless someone tries it, but probably not.
Air defences are difficult to overwhelm. Gaza/Hamas recently tried to overwhelm Israeli missile defence with primitive rockets with very no success. The rockets were very primitive but had the advantage of a short range, which is harder to defend against. OTOH, the intercepting missiles cost orders of magnitude more than the offensive rockets, so it might be possible to drain the ammunition supply.
"loiter over an enemy airspace" is only possible if you already have aerial control.
Overall, armies are conservative. It's dangerous to try and build a strategy around fighting styles that have never been tried at scale.
It's probably worth researching though.
- TeMPOraL 11y ago> OTOH, the intercepting missiles cost orders of magnitude more than the offensive rockets, so it might be possible to drain the ammunition supply. This is the key, I think. As long as you can pound your enemy with cheap hardware forcing him to use up his more expensive one, you're actually successful in your attack - you're bleeding out their economy.
- obsurveyor 11y agoIsrael's rocket defense system, the one used to stop the attacks mentioned in the parent post is really good at being frugal in which rockets it shoots down. It doesn't just try to shoot down every rocket coming at it, it plots them and prioritizes ones that will most likely hit valuable or populated targets. It lets the ones that are going to land in empty fields go, since the risk and damage is minimal.