Originally Posted by
Turbosina
I'm sure it is. But a Shahed drone costs about $35K per. The DoD (sorry, DoW) states that our interceptors range from $250K to $2M... Each.
It's ok, we'll just print more money to finance it all.
No we won't. That's why the DoD is modifying unguided 70mm rockets with extremely cheap guidance systems. If you're not military, 70mm rockets are the small cheap ones they ripple launch from helo pods in 'Nam movies. Big bottle rockets basically.
Drones are so slow and non-reactive that it doesn't take $ophisticated systems like AIM-9/120, PAC-3, SM-2, etc to splash them.
Guess that's another fringe benefit, we got to try out out gear against some of the new asymmetric stuff before a main event in the Pacific. We can practice shooting down model airplanes with bottle rockets.