Bingo!
Who cares if you’re detected on radar since they can’t mount a defense against a swarm.
The recent attacks on Saudi oil facilities demonstrates that the Iranians have already figured out this strategy. They used a swarm of drones and cruise missiles to cause major damage. Any current air defense system would not be able to stop this type of attack. The U.S. spent almost a half-trillion dollars on the F-35 “stealth” fighter and it could not defend against such an attack. How many defensive drones could we have built with that money?
I seem to recall the same “quantity vs quality” debate during the Cold War. The Gulf War answered that question. Iraq had (stress ‘had’) the fourth-largest army in the world, and was well trained in Soviet tactics. Yet they were mopped up in a few weeks by a much smaller attacking force.
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Most of the munitions that dropped from the air in the Gulf War were iron bombs and bullets.
Lots, and lots, and lots of dumb gravity bombs and bullets.
Today we have highly accurate and inexpensive aerial devices that can be mass produced.
The “ideal” standoff weapon is very small and goes exactly where you want it to strike.
Pretty much any country NOW can have BOTH quantity and quality.
How do you defend against 300,000 independently targeted munitions that have a radar signature even smaller (and flying lower) than an F35? Just curious.