War lessons in Ukraine and Israel: The USA expects a huge UAV and missiles in the war with the PRC

The US Army needs to create a cheap and effective system to combat potential threat from China. Iran launched more than 300 rockets and drones on Israel, the vast majority of whom was shot down. However, high -ranking pentagon officials believe that the blow may seem small if the war with China begins. China will be able to attack many goals in the Pacific. About it reports Breaking Defense.

Head of Pentagon Heida Shu said that there have been good news that has happened recently: AEGIS has successfully knocked down ballistic missiles that have been aimed at Israel, and Patriot has proven itself to protect Ukrainian airspace. Lessons from the Russo-Ukrainian War and War in Israel are not self-improvement lessons. The scale of the future threat will require a large number of cheap interceptors, new protection systems, and the destruction of enemy launchers.

"In a very fierce struggle for the Indo-Pacific Ocean, it can be even more. The scale [wars in Ukraine and Israel] simply strikes me again and again. We must have large-scale protection because the enemy can develop cheap systems on a scale that everyone can immediately Run, "says Shu. Also, the director of the missile defense agency, Lieutenant General Hit Collins says that even irregular Hussite formations in Yemen can have a large number of missiles and drones.

Therefore, there is an imbalance between the cost of the air defense and UAV missiles. Therefore, cheap solutions are needed. For example, in Ukraine, "boys literally knocked down rockets from the 50th caliber machine guns. " This requires a complex but relatively inexpensive network of sensors, as if they could identify threats. The United States does not have a "silver ball" that could both protect the country and cost inexpensively and be far off enough.