A large part of the Gepard weight/size is armor, not the AA, but yes, not man portable by any means (edit: the gun assembly is still many tons, I'd guess). The

A large part of the Gepard weight/size is armor, not the AA, but yes, not man portable by any means (edit: the gun assembly is still many tons, I'd guess). The linked text talks about defense against cheap drones and cost curves - not about niche special operation air defense. If you have to defend an installation against a hundred cheap drones a week or so, not sure roadrunner is that cost efficient. On 2), yes, but only if the intercept fails kind of completely.