cruise missile
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The action in Iran has also underscored that drones are delivering a new economics of warfare, which demands cheap cruise missiles, high-power microwaves for drone defense, reusable interceptors on ships.
The stepped-up operation is part of a multistage Pentagon plan to reduce the danger from Iranian armed boats, mines and cruise missiles, which have halted ship traffic through the waterway since early March.
Tehran’s sneaking the occasional cruise missile or drone through air defenses in the Gulf also seems unavoidable.
The kingdom’s air defenses have intercepted at least 457 drones, 40 ballistic missiles and seven cruise missiles since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28.
From Los Angeles Times
Iran has lately sought to acquire Chinese supersonic antiship cruise missiles capable of threatening U.S. naval forces in the Persian Gulf.
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