U.S. drones are too expensive for Ukraine to deploy at scale (www.wsj.com)

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This is a perfect illustration of how US military industry is optimized for soaking up as much government funding as possible instead of producing reliable weapons that can be manufactured at scale.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Iirc the drone which was pissed upon by Russian planes over Black Sea was like 32 million and the one destroyed by Iranians in 2019 which caused USA to hard stop their warmongering for a while was like 200 million.

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