It needs a fixed launch site. Doesn’t mean it needs a fixed command site. Set up the launch site in advance a few km inland, maybe somewhere hard to detect like a narrow valley, and then relay it to a cellular data network. The controller could be basically anywhere, they talk to the hidden ground station on signals that blend in with normal cell data, and then the ground station sends the command signers over the fiber spool.
In 2008 when I was doing convoys in Kandahar we were getting really good at using our ECM bubbles to defeat RCIED. So they started running a command wire from the IED to an ICOM radio a few hundred meters away in the desert out of our RCM bubble. They could observe at a distance, send the trigger signal to the receiver outside of our bubble, and it would send the signal down the wire. Then the next few innovations were about where they would run the wire so our culvert checks wouldn’t catch it… My Toto lost several troops to that.
I’m reasonably sure than today, 18 years hence, the Iranians (well informed by Russia) can run a simple data relay.
Remember that I’m not talking about new weapons here. Russia and Ukraine have been firing these at each other and doing their best to counterbattery for quite a while now.
