The U.S. has been countering the Houthi rebels in Yemen who've been harassing ships headed to and from the Suez Canal. We've been fighting their cheap drones with our expensive anti-aircraft missiles.
In each exchange they lose a couple of thousand bucks, we lose a couple of million bucks. This exchange is not sustainable from an economic perspective. And it is stupid, we need to fight their war, not ours.
What I want to know is why we aren't harassing Houthis with our own cheap drones? These can loiter looking for targets which, once found, can be killed by a cheap missile or the drone's suicide dive.
If we had a couple of these wandering about the sky over every settled area in Yemen it would be harder for them to get set-up to shoot at ships. If a suicide drone loitered till almost out of fuel without finding a target, pick the largest house in the area and crash it.
If every time a vehicle moved it got dive bombed by a small explosive drone they'd soon stop moving. Infrared should handle night movements. I guess you can move weaponry by camel-back, but not easily.
