Protecting a ship at choke point, along disputed territory, or even in the open sea is more difficult than one might assume. You see, in the new era of naval surface warfare we have to deal with incoming missile swarms, hundreds or even thousands of anti-ship missiles. Defending against the onslaught of incoming projectiles and missiles is tough, you have to be 100% right all the time, and there is NO margin for error. Okay so, let's talk.
If a ship is defending against a missile swarm and if it is successful, that doesn't mean that it won't eventually run out of projectiles to take out each incoming missile. At that point, it will not be able to defend itself, thus the next strike will prove fatal. Now then, in this scenario what can we do? Well, if a land based operation is out of range from the ship, it also probably has more missiles, while the ship would have to re-dock at a port to take on more defensive missiles. Thus, the law of attrition has the land based attacker at the advantage.
Therefore, I propose the following new strategy to defend against such an attack;
1. Develop a 3-Phase 3-D Mapping of Surface Ship Safety Zone
2. Upon Missile Swarm Detection Have Anti-Missile Projectile Meet First Incoming Wave at outer border
3. Anti-Missile Projectile Disperses Highly Explosive Flake-Chafe with Incendiary Gas
4. Have Laser Set Off Safety Boundary Chain Reaction and Explosion to Detonate First Swarm Wave
5. Allow subsequent Swarmed Missiles to Hit the Created Debris Field from the First Incoming Wave
2. Upon Missile Swarm Detection Have Anti-Missile Projectile Meet First Incoming Wave at outer border
3. Anti-Missile Projectile Disperses Highly Explosive Flake-Chafe with Incendiary Gas
4. Have Laser Set Off Safety Boundary Chain Reaction and Explosion to Detonate First Swarm Wave
5. Allow subsequent Swarmed Missiles to Hit the Created Debris Field from the First Incoming Wave
This way, we end up taking out most of the missile swarm with only two defensive missiles. Thus giving us the advantage, even if we have to defend multiple swarm missile attacks, and at that rate, the laws of attrition now favor our defensive position and not the land based enemy attacker. Can this work you ask? Well, if you study the Russian's weapon called "The Father of All Bombs" you will see that they employee a similar strategy, no they don't use it for a missile swarms - they use it for a massive explosion igniting the air surrounding the target - many megatons.
In this case we are creating a massive explosion in front of the missile swarm which will cause all of the swarming missiles to detonate, and a debris field to take out the remaining missiles trying to get through. Interestingly enough, when we run the strategy through a war game computer simulation, it actually works. Therefore I thought you should know. So give a big heads-up to Iran, missile swarms on the US military won't work. Please consider all this and think on it.
Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on Future Military Technologies. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net
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