The
U.S. Air Force has announced that it is ordering AMRAAM missiles worth $1.15
billion from Raytheon Missiles and Defense to supply to Ukraine, the U.S. Department of Defense reported on June 20.
Because military people got really good at not dying unless they are hit directly. You can nuclear nuke an entrenched frontline and you and you only create a couple of kilometers of breach in the front. You advance and very angry mobile reserves cut you off and destroy your ass.
That’s one of the reasons tactical nukes are no longer a thing.
That and the fact that AA systems got really good - even against hypersonic maneuvering missiles.
So you realistically you now only use them on poorly protected targets of strategic importants (open air weapons stockpiles, command centers, troop concentrations, …). But you still need infantry and tanks to take and hold terrain.
Because military people got really good at not dying unless they are hit directly. You can nuclear nuke an entrenched frontline and you and you only create a couple of kilometers of breach in the front. You advance and very angry mobile reserves cut you off and destroy your ass.
That’s one of the reasons tactical nukes are no longer a thing.
That and the fact that AA systems got really good - even against hypersonic maneuvering missiles.
So you realistically you now only use them on poorly protected targets of strategic importants (open air weapons stockpiles, command centers, troop concentrations, …). But you still need infantry and tanks to take and hold terrain.