The missile costs ~$56K, which is roughly the same cost as an upgraded Shahed. The UAV in the video appears to be either a Shahed or Gerbera ($10K Shahed decoy).
The war is really showing us how much we’ve been conned, lobbied, and bribed by our respective MICs into paying too much money for overly expensive and ineffective boondoggles.
The interceptor looks like it cost 20x the uav, ugh
The missile costs ~$56K, which is roughly the same cost as an upgraded Shahed. The UAV in the video appears to be either a Shahed or Gerbera ($10K Shahed decoy).
For real? Must be locally manufactured in Ukraine, I’m guessing.
Absolutely zero chance an American or European contractor could build that rocket for $60K, surely?
Could they build it for 60k or less? Probably.
Would they actually sell the damn thing for less than six digits? I’m skeptical.
Germany would spend $60K just on the export paperwork.
In zweifacher Ausführung, laminiert und unterschrieben, bitte!
Ukraine develops new domestically produced missile for the Osa-AKM air defense system.
The war is really showing us how much we’ve been conned, lobbied, and bribed by our respective MICs into paying too much money for overly expensive and ineffective boondoggles.
How much is life? That drone is death.
I’m not criticizing the use of the interceptor I’m bemoaning the attacker advantage.
Agreed. Very true.