They have late-stage Israel syndrome.

Don’t ignore the fact those guys were hit with a load of ballistic and cruise missiles recently and did alright. Not to mention drones and rocket arty on the regular.
I do agree the US are wildly overspending in the era of disposable unmanned-everything though, and this one incident isn’t gonna change their ways.

Has anyone tried making a reactor that can be turned off? Seems like an easy upgrade to make them silent in the short term.

The problem with USVs is they’re relatively slow, if a ship is aware of their presence and is in a fighting state - it can get rid of a bunch of them. And it seems that navy helicopters are a decent counter, but overall it’s too early to tell if USVs are that good or was it the element of surprise.

there is nothing that anybody can do about the most advanced missiles being made today apart from hoping that they miss

You can help them miss. If they’re using GPS navigation, jamming works. It then reverts to inertial navigation though, so the longer you jam - the bigger the error.

Or you could try shooting it down, I doubt they can even dodge a head-on intercept without losing a load of energy.

edit: btw the problem you’re describing is why cbg is a thing

What are they gonna do, send a strongly worded letter to their lemmy instance?