Remember the Obama years when Iran captured an undamaged US drone? I wonder how helpful that was to their drone development program.
In WWII, the low-tech V-1 flying bomb was very cost-effective. The much more technically impressive V-2 was not cost effective. But it did get Werner von Braun a job with NASA.
Alex Christoforou reports that #PedoHitler's puppeteers are thinking about sanctioning RuZZian aluminum.
10 percent of US supply.
Just think of the impact that would have on US inflation.
Both sides have used off the shelf drones available in department stores and hobby shops meant for recreational enthusiasts. They have been armed and used effectively.
There is little doubt that terrorists and sleeped cells within the US have noted this use of drones. Wonder if the FBI that spends so much time, money and manpower tracking gun sales and arresting pro life activists, school board critics and political opponents of Biden, have the inclination to monitor and arrest these terrorists who wish to mass slaughter Americans. Can never forget that when the FBI was informed that Arab students at a Arizona flight school only want to learn how to manuveur and fly a multi engine jet already in flight but not how to land or take off, the FBI did not thoroughly investigate lest they be guilty of “profiling”. Sorry doubt they are currently any good at protecting Americans from enemies foreign or domestic.
A S300 is designed to shoot down supersonic Gen 4+ airplanes costing $100M or more.
For a slow drone, there are plenty of alternative methods to interpret
An SU-34 costs $40 million.
The barage of missles that Russia sent on the first day after the Ukraine bridge blue up cost $700 million.
So $1 million to shoot down a $40 million plane is a worthwhile investment. Althought cheaper means should be used if effective.
Is it cheaper to use S-300 missiles to shoot down Russian missiles and planes or let those Russian missiles hit and take the damage.
My guess is that the missiles are the cheaper option.
It’s not so much the relative values of the missiles, as it is the value of the target being defende. Using a $1M missile to protect a target worth $1B from a drone worth $20K might make sense.
There was a report today that a Ukrainian Mig-29 was able to take out a drone by hitting it with the plane.
The pilot survived, the plane did not.
There was no cost estimate on this brilliant act.
why do they have to buy them from the muslimes???
Again the cost factors are critical. It makes no sense to try to shoot the drones down with missiles that cost 100 times what the drones do and the film footage I've seen of Ukies trying to shoot them down with AKs does not show anybody having any luck at it.