shooting down a drone doesn't even harm anybody. in fact, you can only save lives by shooting it down
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Well, the only harm I see is that the US will then take more money from healthcare and education to build more drones.
How much does each of there drones cost in taxpayer $?
Update: unverified comments below say > $15 million per drone. That's a lot of kids with cancer that won't get cured
Yeah I love that I can just fully cheer for them to be shot down and I don't have to feel bad that soldiers are dying.
At 30 million a pop, that's almost a Billion already. What a waste
Are you getting your figure from an updated source? The article says:
“The Air Force announced its final five-year purchasing contract forReapers in 2020, and manufacturer General Atomics closed the production line last year after building 575 of them. The final lot cost about $16 million each when purchased in a batch of four, according to C. Mark Brinkley, a General Atomics spokesman.”
I had heard anywhere from 15-50 depending on load out, $30M is from Ars,
"military’s current reliance on drones and crewed aircraft, each costing more than $30 million,"
I might've been wrong, of course. Million here, million there, soon you're talking about real money
Ok, $480,000,000
Yep, the us has demonstrated to the world how combat ineffective they are against a remotely developed country
Our issue is that we have lots of bombs and no stomach at all for boots on the ground. (The last part is a good thing in my book). Hard to be effective with our politics and MIC
Boots on the ground is worthless without air superiority, your positions will just get bombed/shelled constantly. The US has been unable to achieve that without assistance like it had in Iraq.
Small drones just make it that much harder since they can evade conventional anti-air defenses.
We need to see those numbers bumped up.
Carry on
Keep up the good work!