Fighters receive an important role against launch aircraft when several threats arrive together. Destroying a launcher before it fires prevents the immediate attack; destroying it afterwards can prevent another strike. Repeated attacks progressively consume defensive stocks. Reloading vertical-launch cells at sea is treated as unavailable operationally despite experiments and proposals. Ships exhausting their magazines face a return to reload, making prevention of repeat attacks part of sustaining defence.
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Attacking launchers to protect the fleet's missile stocks
Intercepting launch aircraft can prevent repeated salvos that exhaust defensive magazines.