Proposal for a distinct maritime Anti-Drone Warfare tier for Shahed-class threats

The article argues for a new three-tier air-defence/anti-drone framework that treats long-range one-way attack drones (e.g., Shahed-136 class) as a distinct operational domain requiring purpose-built sensors, effectors, and maritime platforms rather than conventional AAW or small-drone C-UAS. The novelty is the doctrinal/architecture reframing for maritime defence, emphasizing cost-exchange and saturation dynamics and implying different procurement and deployment priorities (lower-cost effectors, shipborne layers vs shore-only).