Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Cute population terror weapons. Limited utility against modern mech, armor, major weapons systems.
Absolutely. Sort of like a RPG with precision guidance and longer range, but cheap and able to hit soft targets. Still, that’s one of the facets of asymmetric warfare. Using something relatively cheap - if only occasionally - requires a massive investment to defend against. Multimillion dollar radars and F-16s to stop a $50k weapon from taking out your parliament building.
For that matter, Ukraine’s new cruise missile - the flamingo - is just sort of an upgraded V-1 with more range and better guidance. But if you can make them cheaply enough, quantity really does have a quality all its own.
And, speaking of terrorism uses:
https://warontherocks.com/2025/09/th...latin-america/