The offset argument extends into modern small-craft warfare. Missiles give a small boat greater reach, but Wildcat helicopters and larger warships can answer with their own precision weapons. A larger vessel can also deploy boats and uncrewed craft, becoming a task group in miniature. Adding technology to the cheaper platform does not prevent the richer force from building a layered counter-system.
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Modern small craft face layered mothership responses
Missile-armed small craft remain threatening, but helicopters and larger ships can deploy their own missiles, boats, and uncrewed systems against them.