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The thing about drones is you can build them cheaply enough that it cost the enemy more to shoot them down than it costs to build more of them. Instead the mil
by onemoreact 15y ago
The thing about drones is you can build them cheaply enough that it cost the enemy more to shoot them down than it costs to build more of them. Instead the military has decided to simply make fighter planes that don't need pilots but that's a separate issue.
- ahelwer 15y agoSource? I'm not sure you could get a drone up and running for smaller than a multiple of the price of a surface-to-air missile.
- onemoreact 15y agoEdit: I don't work with such things, but posting the first version of this felt unwise so I cut a few things. Stinger's cost ~38k and are not guaranteed to work so multiply that by the probability of failure. You can buy drone control system can cost below 1,500$ ex: http://www.micropilot.com/products-mp1028g.htm http://www.micropilot.com/products-mp1028g.htm, granted there are good reasons to buy / build something far more expensive but we are looking at low cost baseline. After that it's a question of range and payload for 10,000$ you can get an RC jet that can do 200 mph and carry a camcorder for surveillance. Call it 15k for a fairly respectable surveillance aircraft. As to being able to fight back just add a spike. PS: Now figure out what you can do with say 10 billion$ aka 600,000 of these things. Worse yet that's just an opening, they are cheap enough that you have plenty of budget for other things.