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September 5, 2019

The U.S. Navy Has a Plan to Destroy Any Swarm Boat Attacks by Iran

Tehran should be worried.
by Kris Osborn

Should swarms of armed small boats seek to surround, overwhelm and confuse large Navy ships in a coordinated barrage of attacks, surface ship radar could be jammed, long and medium range ship defenses could be rendered ineffective and virtually all angles of a ship could be hit quickly at one time.

Small boats, manned or unmanned, could launch electronic warfare attacks, hit with small arms or even fire various kinds of larger weapons. They are extremely difficult to defend for many reasons, one of them simply being numbers and redundancy; if there are so many spread out, yet fast-approaching small boats, it could be difficult for deck-mounted ship guns or overhead assets such as drones or helicopters to destroy enough approaching targets at one time.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/us-navy-has-plan-destroy-any-swarm-boat-attacks-iran-78126