Since I brought that up I'll take a shot at it until pvebber gets here. More and cheaper platforms presents a kind of reverse target overload to the attacker. Thats the whole idea behind missiles and why they are such a threat, they can be launched from very cheap platforms. That's why the Army wanted to base ICBM's on Semi-Trailers to be used on the Interstate Highway system (thats why it was called the Strategic Highway System to start)or construct a large Rail Road system out in the West over multiple States. The Air Force couldn't live with that so it never happened. But the same philosophy can be applied to Air,Sea or Land. Make a lot of Platforms that can Shoot,Move,and Communicate together and you increase your chance of deterrence and if that fails you increase your chance of survival. It was all figured out in the 1950's under IKE.
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