Task-group air defences had concentrated on attacks coming into the defended formation. Red Sea operations exposed a different geometry, with missiles travelling across a ship's engagement area. A weapon crossing the area presents a different interception problem from one approaching the task group itself. This is a specific lesson from those engagements that remains useful even though the surrounding waters differ from an open ocean.
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Red Sea attacks exposed a crossing-target problem
A missile travelling across a ship's engagement area can test defences differently from an attack aimed into its task group.