Maybe cheap enemy missiles could knock out the large, expensive warships? Key point: Both the Royal and American navies are examining how to protect their aircraft carriers. Is there a way to really counter drone and missile swarms? Inexpensive Russian and Chinese weapons, such as cyberwar and antiship missiles, threaten the West’s reliance on expensive arms such as aircraft carriers.
“China and Russia appear to have focused many (but not all) their efforts on being able to put at risk the key Western assets that are large, few in number and expensive,” reads a recent study by the Royal United Services Institute, a British military think tank.