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Jeb wrote:
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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.
Shielding agains nuclear EMP might be tough (especially because it is
so non-trivial to check whether it works).

Shielding against a radar with known properties should not be a
problem. If you go to the pains of designing and building the UAVs, you
don't leave them vulnerable against such an obvious way to deal with
them.