Cdr Salamander made a post yesterday which hit on the number of munitions we have ready to go day one in a war. It seems like after a year of fighting Ukraine is running out of anti-air missiles. The Shahed is NOT a high tech weapon. Its not fast. It is getting thru. I have to wonder if our anti-air doctrine is jaded to the point of irrelevance. The battlefield is covered. High value targets are covered. Everything in between isn't. A big gap exists when it comes to value vs value, which we're on the losing end of. A 1/2 million dollar missile to take out a ten thousand dollar drone is terrible economics. We're back to the kill the archer thing but that means we have to kill the enemy anti-air quick.There were 37 "Shaheds" in total during this one night. Some of them were shot down. But only part of them. Fortunately, people were not injured. There are hits in the southern areas – Odesa region, our ports. We are doing our best with our partners to increase the supply of air… pic.twitter.com/UZneIfmEKd
— Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) August 2, 2023
TLDR?
Do we still have Wild Weasel squadrons? If not can we reform them quickly to kill enemy anti-air so we can take out their drone launchers? With the disaster of the Scud hunt decades ago, could we even find them quickly enough to make a difference?
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