But you don’t have to have perfect knowledge of all of them at the same time. You can wait for clean shots and pick them off one by one. While in the case of a nuke, you need concentrated and exposed targets for it to do its magic. i.e. it depends on the use case. Against a carrier group? Sure. Against mobile soldiers on dirt bikes? Precision artillery seems a lot more cost effective.
Looking at the Ukraine conflict, one thing that is striking is how many drones are being used. And that’s just what is being published. NATO intelligence is also worth a lot, which seems to be used well (i.e. precision strikes on hidden command posts).
This assumes that you have perfect knowledge of the exact location of the enemies troops. The advantage of TNWs is you don’t need to be (as) precise.
But you don’t have to have perfect knowledge of all of them at the same time. You can wait for clean shots and pick them off one by one. While in the case of a nuke, you need concentrated and exposed targets for it to do its magic. i.e. it depends on the use case. Against a carrier group? Sure. Against mobile soldiers on dirt bikes? Precision artillery seems a lot more cost effective.
Looking at the Ukraine conflict, one thing that is striking is how many drones are being used. And that’s just what is being published. NATO intelligence is also worth a lot, which seems to be used well (i.e. precision strikes on hidden command posts).