We can’t build 1,000 warships but we can build 1,000 anti-ship missiles!
Hidden anti-ship missiles
Hidden Anti-Ship Missile concept
In an age of ubiquitous surveillance, thousands of hidden truck-mounted anti-ship missiles would be a powerful deterrent.
Many anti-ship missile systems can be identified, tracked and targeted from space.
Given Australia’s excellent road network we don’t need these missile systems to be on obvious military launchers. There are intermediate range (1,000km+) anti-ship missiles that would fit in 12 meter shipping container-shaped launchers. We should be able to make our own.
An (undisguised) Taiwanese truck-mounted anti-ship missile system with a 400km range (Wikimedia)The PRC’s hypersonic DF-17 could be hidden in a standard 12 meter shipping container. It has a 1,600 km range.Truck mounted Hyper Velocity Guided Projectile (HVGP), JapanTruck mounted harpoon missilesAustralia’s Hypersonix Launch SystemsTalay sea-skimming anti-ship missile Truck mounted Shahzad drones, IranTruck mounted Hsiung Feng III, TaiwanUkraine Unveils Long-Range Neptune Cruise Missile Variant (united24media.com)Long-Range Neptune Missile Successfully Strikes at 1,000 km, Zelenskyy Says (united24media.com)
