Edit: Some are missing the point… I’m totally in favor for intercepting those bastards. But in sum I believe that stuff like skynex (30-35mm shrapnel ammo) or manpads are more cost efficient. Poland produces a leading solution with its Piorun manpad.
No. My edit above makes that clear, too. But in a long run you cannot spent costly manufactured, even scarce rockets to down cheap drones, or even decoy drones.
It will deplete the stocks which are getting filled back too slowly. That’s why the Gepard is such a success in Ukraine. It catches all the slow moving targets at minimal cost.
Those dutch F-35s are already deployed in that region for this exact purpose. It’s not like they flew over there from the Netherlands just for these drones.
I edited my comment, but scrambling F-35s and wasting rockets on cheaper drones, will never be effective. I added some infos above to make the point more clear.
That doesn’t sound cost efficient.
Edit: Some are missing the point… I’m totally in favor for intercepting those bastards. But in sum I believe that stuff like skynex (30-35mm shrapnel ammo) or manpads are more cost efficient. Poland produces a leading solution with its Piorun manpad.
You can’t really put a price on sovereignty or human life.
No. My edit above makes that clear, too. But in a long run you cannot spent costly manufactured, even scarce rockets to down cheap drones, or even decoy drones.
It will deplete the stocks which are getting filled back too slowly. That’s why the Gepard is such a success in Ukraine. It catches all the slow moving targets at minimal cost.
Those dutch F-35s are already deployed in that region for this exact purpose. It’s not like they flew over there from the Netherlands just for these drones.
I edited my comment, but scrambling F-35s and wasting rockets on cheaper drones, will never be effective. I added some infos above to make the point more clear.
Probably cheaper than letting them crash and explode in Poland, triggering article 5.
Maybe. But then again, maybe not in the long run.
This is a quite comprehensive video, but it does touch on the economics of defense vs offense. But it’s a tough watch if you’re not used to it.