Uncrewed missile craft do not remove sea-control problems

How would small uncrewed missile craft be escorted, rearmed, and used to control sea space?

They still need logistics, escorts, command arrangements, and sea control; uncrewed launchers do not make the ocean behave like held land.

Uncrewed missile launchers still need escorts and protected routes to their reload points. Four craft with 48 vertical-launch cells each would add 192 missiles to a Type 45 force in the example. At two missiles per target, that represents 96 engagements, estimated here as perhaps three or four strikes before replacements and reloading become necessary. Submarines or mines could interrupt the empty craft's return journeys. Sea control depends on an effective naval presence along those routes, so a defended firing position does not make the rest of the voyage safe. The ocean lacks the continuing surveillance and everyday policing that can help secure a road through held territory.