Shahed is overrated shit

sharts military industrial complex charged 50$ for a serving of nuggets back in the 90s Is not about making things cheap but as expensive as possible

you could make drones out of sticks if you wanted to

>>25659451 no it's not about Shahed specifically, but the concept - "suicide drone with ~100kg warhead that flies ~1000+ km" it's quite effective even if the attacked party has good air defence they never shot down every drone but houthis don't have okay air defence AFAIK

no one is going to make anything that cheap over there. one american shahed would probably cost 150 million bucks.

im surprised nobody made a gun drone yet

>>25659467 yeah this is the problem drones are so effective right now because 95% of them are just civilian drones with explosives attached to them which cost a few hundred to a few thousand dollars max the stuff militaries produce start at 100 thousand dollars minimum and go to a few million, all for a single use shitty weapon

>>25659474 funny thing is that most military equipment is shitty compared to private market

>>25659467 yeah even if they find a way to produce it cheaply, the firm making them will ask for a ~5000% markup because "it's Pentagon, duh" US operation against houthis will end in a flop

>>25659446 The problem with cheaply produced drones is you can't grift much $$$ from it Our manufactuers will outsource our military production to China then

>>25659513 this is why choina will win they got 10 000+ mach 7 cruise missiles that reach all the way to the midwest

>>25659451 It's easy to steal money when you are producing some expensive wunderwaffe then producing cheap drones, so no.

USA has complete air superiority and B-52s. they don't need silly toy drones.

Houthi’s found a glitch in the matrix and can’t be defeated with their desert cave abiliti.

>>25660526 If they were really desperate to defeat Houthis they would drop MOABs like they did against ISIS. All that money to protect Israel, America the Beautiful.

>>25660517 dont give them ideas is actually quite possible to make a target seeking missile from scratch today airplanes are fucked but dont know it yet

>>25660558 they're not desperate, and they'll do something like that anyway. biden admin was just utterly incompetent and acting against wect interests.

>>25660517 in the spirit of DoGE it's better to use a $30 drone than a $500k missile to kill some ragtag guy in a cave

>>25660558 >>25660569 You think I’m kidding but I’m not. I’m pretty sure they fight like desert gypsy and just run and hide non stop.

>>25660448 >wunderwaffen never work it is evolving

>>25659467 more importantly, they will have to have a command/control center in the vicinity of the action to give commands to the drone, and that command center would be hit back, with americans having nothing significant to put on the table to create an excuse to the losses which would drag them into a new war, that they can not afford

>>25660526 the glitch is that you have 35 millions of veterans, most of whom would choose to enlist to the enemy army if the draft would be declared because the corporate army sucked them dry, giving nothing in return what was originally a project to give mass education and move society forward, by giving people goals in life and knowledge to reach them, became just another demoralizing job with brand made of bitching fagmaster sergants and retarded shouting of fagging system mantras in response