With all the new fire and forget munitions that can be fired from outside LOS, it is only reasonable to allow for SAM systems to be able to rearm indefinitely after it is consumed (with a small and reasonable cooldown) in order to be able to shoot them down in the same way aircraft do.
This will be no different to an aircraft being able to land and rearm an indefinite amount of times without any risk of being shot down.
In this example, a Su-34 can fire all 6 of its Kh-38ML from the airfield, without any line of sight to the battlefield and rearm within seconds of launching. These missiles will then fly towards the SAM system on their own without any guidance from the aircraft. In the case of the Spyder AIO, it will only be able to shoot down 2 full salvos before dying during the third because it ran out of ammo and could not intercept the final two Kh-38ML missiles.
This kind of weapons are not only available on the Su-34 but also on the Su-25SM3, Su-30, Rafale, Mirage 2000 RMV and this is not even taking into consideration unpowered glide bombs that are available in much larger numbers on almost every single top tier jet.
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