[gocard14]

Not sure the US would be able to defend itself well against such an attack, especially if unexpected. The future of warfare is now.

Indeed! Most US air force bases are extremely vulnerable to such attacks, and a "surprise" attack of this type may even remain unattributable for quite some time. In addition, there are so many variations on this theme that make it difficult to prepare a "defense". We don't know exactly what we are defending against. One factor that does help is that the US has lots of "indoor" storage for its aircraft. Certainly all the B-2s are stored indoors whenever possible. They don't much like weather. This makes attacks that can't penetrate the building before exploding very much less effective. That said, all aircraft have to spend some time on the flightline before a mission, if not for other reasons. Aircraft are also relatively fragile and burn pretty well.

The obvious answer here seems to be to build more 100k enclosures to protect 50-200 million dollar aircraft. I suspect even without drone strikes it's worthwhile just to keep them in the garage, as most owners of far less fragile sports cars can attest. 

As you say they can they can't be indoors 100% of the time, but it would make coordinating a big attack like this impossible. 

That said, well done Ukraine!

Given the standoff nature of the air war and the fact they're probably more limited by missle supply then airframes, this may not have a brobdingnagian impact on the front lines, but politically the impact is massive.

[gocard14]

Not sure the US would be able to defend itself well against such an attack, especially if unexpected. The future of warfare is now.

Indeed! Most US air force bases are extremely vulnerable to such attacks, and a "surprise" attack of this type may even remain unattributable for quite some time. In addition, there are so many variations on this theme that make it difficult to prepare a "defense". We don't know exactly what we are defending against. One factor that does help is that the US has lots of "indoor" storage for its aircraft. Certainly all the B-2s are stored indoors whenever possible. They don't much like weather. This makes attacks that can't penetrate the building before exploding very much less effective. That said, all aircraft have to spend some time on the flightline before a mission, if not for other reasons. Aircraft are also relatively fragile and burn pretty well.

The obvious answer here seems to be to build more 100k enclosures to protect 50-200 million dollar aircraft. I suspect even without drone strikes it's worthwhile just to keep them in the garage, as most owners of far less fragile sports cars can attest. 

As you say they can they can't be indoors 100% of the time, but it would make coordinating a big attack like this impossible. 

That said, well done Ukraine!

Given the standoff nature of the air war and the fact they're probably more limited by missle supply then airframes, this may not have a brobdingnagian impact on the front lines, but politically the impact is massive.