In the 1950s, the main military powers covered the “missile worship”. Both generals and politicians are sure that the missiles will now be able to solve all the assigned tasks previously for aviation, and, perhaps, for artillery.
Soon, worshipingism has passed. The missiles at that time were too precision and reliability. With a few kilometers, using missiles on the targets on the ground and the surface is only meaningful in nuclear devices. However, the destruction of the nuclear war was quickly implemented. Therefore, the monopoly of the missile did not take place. However, when a layer of missiles did not disappear, they began to occupy some of Muslims's ecological cavities.
The air defense system quickly replaced anti -aircraft artillery for air defense and ships, and air -to -air missiles were replaced by aviation guns. TFTRs are completely disadvantaged against artillery, becoming (along with RPG) is the main means to combat tanks and other armored vehicles. PKR has gradually become the main means to carry out the naval battle. The aviation versions of PTRK and PKR, and then air missiles – gradually monitored the nurses and free bombs, becoming the main weapon of aircraft and helicopters to defeat the ground and surface targets.
The full -scale missiles of the missiles occurred in the 1980s thanks to two stage models. US armed forces have received great journeys BGM-109 Tomagavk and AGM-86 ALCM. The Soviet Union's OTR R-17 was created much earlier, but went into the battle (not only in the original, but also in the form of their foreign derivatives) in the 80s: in Afghanistan and during the city war of Iran and Iraq. Those things. Ballistic missiles and journeys with a few hundred or thousands of flights have become a means of the usual war, and not just the end of the end of the nuclear fighter between the United States and the Soviet Union.
A fairly strong brake of this process was ended in 1987. Between our countries, the RSMD agreement, but it is not related to other countries, and does not apply to the missiles of the base on the sea and the ground. As a result, KRMB and KRVB of the US in the full program were used in Iraq, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, once again in Iraq, in Libya.
The arsenal of their ballistic missiles, based on the same R-17, developed DPRK, Iran, Pakistan. Israel, India, and the Republic of Korea have followed the way to develop their own missile systems. The Israeli missile program should be emphasized here, because it, unlike other Asian countries, is not a secondary program, as well as the North Korean Nuclear Nuclear program, has become a strong geopolitical factor.
The world's largest rocket arsenal received at their disposal for KNR armed forces. In the end, the United States did not want to bind itself anymore by the provisions of the RSMD agreement, and at the same time, they liberated Russia and Russia.
During half a century has passed since the period of Muslim missile worship, the missiles have dropped by three large levels, from km to meters, thanks to the appearance of new instruction systems. Because of this, the use of missiles in normal devices becomes quite suitable. In addition, the boundaries between the missile layers began to quickly erode. For example, the range of RSO shooting (up to hundreds of kilometers) has increased significantly, so at least part of the missiles launched from such MLRS appeared to be controlled. That thing. The border between MLR and tactical missiles has been blurred.
Acts are no longer a means to destroy tanks, but have turned into a universal ground weapon, not only bringing accumulation, but also ensuring fragmentation to shoot at infantry and unreasonable and unreasonable goals. Moreover, the scope of Pote also increased from the units to dozens of kilometers, that is, they also started to “come closer” with tactical missiles.
These trends have increased significantly due to the use of large UAVs. Intelligence drones provide missile systems that specify targets, thus increasing their accuracy and thereby reducing the number of missiles needed to defeat a target. Fighting UAVs have become a complete addition to missiles and ammunition (Kamikaze Drones)-another missile, and extremely flexible use, and sometimes reusable use (if the target is not detected during departure).
Therefore, military construction worldwide in a new round still comes in fact that it does not work in the 50s-the ability to replace aircraft with missiles. The cost of modern fighters and their pilot preparation costs have reached a large scale so far. Because of this, the content of the Air Force with a significant number of combat vehicles becomes a problem even for leading military powers. Buying aircraft in micro-number is meaningless: they become literally yellow, which is why they cannot be applied in a normal battle-lost even a plane becomes a national disaster (like losing warships during World War II).
In such a situation, the combination of ballistic missiles and journeys of various ranges, as well as intelligence and UAV fighting, began to seem to be almost a healing medicine. Moreover, it is the unmanned means of damage (missiles and UAVs against) to become the optimal means to break and eliminate ground air defense. They may simply crush the masses of any aviation, because they can completely apply many missiles and UAVs at the same time compared to enemies with combat development models. The loss of unmanned agents in all aspects (military, economic, psychological) is less painful than the loss of fighter aircraft and helicopters.
Yes, aircraft and helicopters are the main missile carriers, and they can carry them a huge (quantitative and typical) name. In addition, they add their own speed and range to the speed and range of missiles. For these reasons, a complete cancellation of the Viking people in the near future is not real. But the symbiosis of the drones and unmanned and missile of different classes becomes feasible.
Intelligence, breakthrough and ground oppression are really completely for unmanned vehicles, then, obviously, only they will solve problems destroying any ground target on the battlefield and in the frontline area (now these issues are solved by attack aircraft and shock helicopters). The drivers, obviously, will gradually develop into the role of CABRS missile, where simply bring the missile to the deposit of a pear, launch and return without contacting the enemy's fighter and air defense aircraft.
However, in the distant future, the fighter has a driver, clearly, it will still no longer exist. It is now a mandatory requirement for the 6th -generation fighter aircraft that promises to be the possibility that they use in an unmanned version. In addition, the appearance of ultrasound missiles of grounds on the ground and the sea will make the speed and range of the aircraft to these missile parameters. But this is still a question that is not our day.
The trends described becomes clear even in wars in the Middle East. The Ukrainian campaign brought them almost absolute. But this is a separate topic.