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wrote:
I kept specifying "small, stealthy UAVs" - which by definition would
be used for recce, not attack - as these are the hardest targets to
detect and destroy. Now it may be that powerful navies will not be too
troubled by what they can do (you can't hide a ship too easily anyway,
so their enemy will know they are there)...

On reflection I was wrong there - even small UAVs could pose a serious
threat to ships coming within artillery range of a hostile shore, since
they could lase the ship to guide in laser-homing artillery rounds like
the Russian Krasnopol.

Tony Williams
Military gun and ammunition website: http://www.quarry.nildram.co.uk