Very easy, yet they still get through - again, again and again. Also, it's likely that it indeed got stealthier, and very likely got DRFM jammer(there was classified defensive payload funding for them).
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Yes but the difference in warhead size is large enough to make the difference in cost worth it. Either way I would avoid making such comparisons because both fulfill different purposes. And yeah as others have noted, both can make it through *Iranian* AD just fine.
But I would just like to comment that upgrading legacy systems through a million increments in order to keep them relevant, is a very American thing
With a limited number of VLS, few navies are willing to cram loitering munitions into VLS for now. They always want to "get their money's worth".
The Iranians are literally begging that US put their military vessels at 50km of the Anti Ship missiles.
I heard that Kurds don't want to enter this war. And even then they are going to do Fight Iraq Shia militias?
Its not about blind cheerleading. Its about looking at the basic physics of each system and seeing for what it is.
Just cause US has used tomahawks since 1990s and got a lot of fame, doesn't mean its some mythically good missile that peer countries will be afraid of.
Tomahawk is similar to Russian kalibr missiles which have been shotdown very easily and frequently by Ukraine, which shows you how easy for a country with proper AD will be able to shootdown tomahawks.
The original premise of the post was, how much should China and Russia cheerlead the fact that US is wasting a lot of tomahawks.
My point is, they are not afraid of tomahawks, cause they are actually worse technology than shahed drones.
Technologically speaking, shahed drones are a massive leap forward in technology. Because they are cheap, still extremely long range and highly accurate and ground hugging.
These are exactly the characteristics of a tomahawk except the cost.
So you get all the benefits of a tomahawk without the million dollar cost. Thats a huge innovation.
We are long past the times when tomahawk was a very important weapons platform.
I would argue no, they no longer are that important, cause shaheds are better in every way.
Nothing out of the ordinary here. After all, there's nothing the US and Israel love more than attacking a good old fashioned civilian target. It brings them immense joy and pleasure. But they need to get their jollies somehow I guess, being that they absolutely suck at striking military targets (that don't include leadership that is, another extreme fetish of theirs).
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