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Jeb

wrote:

The problem here is that it could be a kind of 'asymmetric warfare', in
that the costs and problems of the defence are potentially far more
costly than those of the attackers.

It would seem to me to be likely that a simple software code
modification would allow an Aegis system to detect smaller, slower
returns (I would expect that right now, those get filtered out so that
seabirds don't cause spurious readings on the radar scopes). If you
pick up a weak signal that doesn't belong there, just have AEGIS dump
all of its radiating power down a relatively tight beam and zorch a
little lightweight unshielded UAV right out of its electronic mind.