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~$100M/unit isn't exactly cheap to replace...

• recursivecaveat 6mo ago
  One $100M aircraft vs 2800 $35K drones. I think the future is nobody builds such kind of fighter jets again.
  • crote 6mo ago
    It's even worse, actually. This attack seems to be done by a regular quadcopter, so suddenly you have to be worried about your $100M aircraft being destroyed by a $500 drone if your base security isn't absolutely perfect. The US has plenty of bases in the area, but considering the ease of an attack and the general anti-US sentiment of the region, projecting power into the Middle East is going to become an awful lot more difficult...
  • FpUser 6mo ago
    Wake me up when all F35 are sitting on airfields reachable by Iranian drones and unprotected and doing nothing but waiting to be hit
    • recursivecaveat 6mo ago
      V-weapons were also an encounterable weapon which could strike from beyond range. Massive boondoggle though, just a very expensive expensive way to deliver very few explosives; waste of industrial output.