>Unfortunately the cameras, sensors, and compute hardware is expensive enough I wonder how much more expensive. My feeling is a better equipped military with g

>Unfortunately the cameras, sensors, and compute hardware is expensive enough I wonder how much more expensive. My feeling is a better equipped military with greater ISR capacities can probably better discriminate targets and hence make more efficiently/economical use of smarter/expensive drones. What's the proverb where the poor stays poor because they have spend just to keep afloat and never get chance to invest. A force with inferior ISR has to spam cheap drones because they don't have the expensive hardware to employ less highend drones that probably take less manpower etc etc, and problem spirals. By highend I don't mean US MIC shitshow like switchblade that cost 60-80k, there are DJI drones with AESA radar (more advanced than most gen3.5 fighters) that cost 8k, which is to say the highend component costs can be "reasonable"