>With a large number of them, the energy draw from the ship is pretty demanding.
There are destroyers on the drawing board with enough excess capacity to power rail guns, and the latest aircraft carriers have upgraded reactor units to power the electromagnetic launch systems they use instead of steam catapults.
The reactors that supply these large ships should have plenty of excess power for a few hundred drones.
>These things might be too slow to intercept an incoming missile, especially the super sonic ones.
They don't have to match speed, they just need to place themselves in the path of the missile; they are incredibly agile and shouldn't have trouble doing so.
There are destroyers on the drawing board with enough excess capacity to power rail guns, and the latest aircraft carriers have upgraded reactor units to power the electromagnetic launch systems they use instead of steam catapults.
The reactors that supply these large ships should have plenty of excess power for a few hundred drones.
>These things might be too slow to intercept an incoming missile, especially the super sonic ones.
They don't have to match speed, they just need to place themselves in the path of the missile; they are incredibly agile and shouldn't have trouble doing so.