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There's no target worth less than $1k on a battlefield.
by littlestymaar 2y ago
There's no target worth less than $1k on a battlefield.
- whatisthiseven 2y agoIronically, the drones themselves are targets worth about $1k or less. Just fairly difficult to spot/shoot down.
- stavros 2y agoHow do you figure they're worth less than $1k? They cost $1k, they're worth as much as the thing they're about to take out.
- sqeaky 2y agoThis!! People keep trying to look at war economics as each side spending a dollar to cost the other a dollar. Really it is a countless series of wildly inequitable exchanges. Sometimes you waste a cruise missile on a single dude because that guy was a sniper and could cause tens of millions of dollars of damage. Sometimes you spend $1,000 on a single drone and take out a billion dollar parked strategic bomber. Trying to look at each Exchange in an economic context is ridiculous, not that someone doesn't need to look at economics. But looking at it at the scale of individual targets and price tags isn't the right way.
- willcipriano 2y agoIf you have to rebuild everything you blow up like in the middle east, every target has a negative value (unless you are a Haliburton stockholder).
- rasz 2y agorussian Chinese bikes and EV scooters are pretty close.
- littlestymaar 2y agoWhy would you target them without a man on it?
- PaulHoule 2y agoRussia seems to treat soldiers as if they were worth 0 ₽.
- littlestymaar 2y agoThe fact that Russia's valuation of their own soldiers life is off doesn't mean killing one soldier isn't worth a thousand bucks. Even if you discount the tactical effect of losing soldiers in battle, just the gear of the soldier is worth more than a thousand dollars already (just ballistic vest + riffle is enough to pass this very low bar)
- agapon 2y agoHow much would you value a soldier riding one of those?