boatsIf one separates the weapon and the delivery system the MTB is too vulnerable, missile boats always grow into quasi frigates just as dragoons always became ersatz cavalry.
Missile dropped torpedos are too large a package not to attract air defences. The modern answer must be fast long range autonomous torpedos. To get the warhead under the hull. Perhaps combining it with the mine concept by dropping them ahead of the predicted track of the targets and leaving them to await their arrival within range.
Missile dropped torpedos are too large a package not to attract air defences. The modern answer must be fast long range autonomous torpedos. To get the warhead under the hull. Perhaps combining it with the mine concept by dropping them ahead of the predicted track of the targets and leaving them to await their arrival within range.