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Cargo aircraft like the C5 Galaxy the author mentioned are also vulnerable to antiaircraft fire, including when they approach.

That slow moving vehicle...

Massive, shiny and slow

well, maybe it could deliver 200k pounds of gear while carrying 100k pounds of counter measures?

but again, the original plan was always good enough for humans dropping slowly on parachutes

Starship pretty much just falls out of they sky though. There’s a lot less time to destroy one than a similar aircraft.

In Ukraine both sides seem to be able to fairly easily destroy any target that is visible to the eye by firing a surface to air missile at it. Starship landing is pretty visible and not really faster than a jet over the final mile.