The Navy wants longer-range weapons to suppress enemy air defenses. Doing so on land nullifies Russia's fire support strategy.
Left alone, ground-based air defenses have become lethal at longer ranges:
The U.S. Navy wants to a new anti-radiation missile with a longer range than existing weapons.
The Advanced Emission Suppression Missile, or AESM, “must be compatible with existing launch platforms (e.g. F-18, F-35) and infrastructure currently supporting the Navy and Air Force’s existing inventory of anti-radiation guided missiles,” according to the Navy’s Sources Sought notice.
That harms Russia a lot, which relies on using artillery superiority on a battlefield where air power is nullified by ground-based air defenses.
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