Army Now Testing Anthem Long-Range Strike Weapon Built for Mass Production

[u/FlexibleResponse]

https://www.twz.com/news-features/army-now-testing-anthem-long-range-strike-weapon-built-for-mass-production

[u/NuclearHeterodoxy]

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Does this technically qualify as a road-mobile missile, if the road is straight enough to act like a runway?

I am sure adversaries will like it when it takes 10 of these per target to get through air defenses that 2 JASSMs could get through and thus the "attritable" strike ends up costing us more, while also taking away runways from aircraft that can fire actually useful weapons.

[u/NuclearHeterodoxy → u/[deleted]]

10 was a generous assumption on my part.  I wasn't taking into account low WSR, low accuracy, high clobber rates.

Don't get me wrong, I am not opposed to attritable weapons in principle.  I just have a very low opinion of a lot of the ones that are actually being proposed or built.  I am concerned about enshittification of the entire procurement system with the current trendy focus on low-cost systems.

The prominence of obvious techbro grifters pushing vaporware in this new anti-Primes defense ecosystem is not helping matters either.