That's just not true except for fixed targets. What is your target? Is your target going to move in the 5-10 minutes it takes the weapon to reach the target? If your target does move then what? What if the target needs to be destroyed in 2 minutes?
Standoff weapons have their uses, but they can't do everything. There are always tradeoffs.
Good points, Entropy. Missiles seem to hold a certain fascination without acknowledgement of their limitations, military and otherwise. How quickly people forget mocking Clinton for "lobbing cruise missiles."
"On the plains and mountains of the American West, the United States Army had once learned everything there was to learn about hit-and-run tactics and guerrilla warfare."
T.R. Fehrenbach This Kind of War
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