$41600 per drone? I mean, wow, these are not the cobbled together types.
the EW war is going to make retail cots drones a bit less common at the front
The majority of the drones will be highly effective first-person view (FPV) drones. The package will also include 1,000 one-way attack drones, researched and developed in the U.K., as well as surveillance and maritime drones.
The prices for the drones are not equal. I am guessing their maritime drones are the expensive bit because of their range and capabilities. This article from last September says they are about $250k a pop: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66373052
Even just one Russian ship loss would offset the costs for all of the drones. (How many submarine conversions does Russia have now?)
This is a fair take. Those marine drones are doing amazing work.
Somewhere in a timeline with an alternative timeline in Imperial Japan, there’s a guy going “what if we didn’t have to put pilots in our flying bombs…”. And a bean counter is figuring out if that’ll save money.
That was actually being developed around that time, just not by the Japanese from what I am aware of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aphrodite
Besides what is in that link, I believe there were several other similar things going on between the USAF(or equiv. I don’t think the USAF was formed at the time.) and the RAF.
I was looking at buying sprayer drones with 40kg payload, $35000 a pop.
What kind of spray would make Russians go away?
Who’s their drone guy?
I know a guy
Don’t they 3D print a lot of those parts?
Hmm proxy wars are getting even more expensive…
