Gallipoli's failures introduce a warning against treating every new weapon as unprecedented. Small, fast drone motherships and their undersea attack craft resemble torpedo boats that use size and speed to approach before releasing a weapon below the waterline. The analogy rests on how the delivery craft reaches its target and the flooding its weapon is intended to cause. Destroying that craft before it launches is easier than trying to stop the torpedo afterward. Modern drones therefore revive a familiar force-protection problem: finding and engaging a small launcher before it closes far enough to attack.
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Modern attack drones repeat the torpedo-boat problem
Small drone motherships and undersea attack craft recreate the old problem of stopping a torpedo boat before it releases its weapon.