Dutch F-35 shoots down Russian drone, displays kill marking

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/dutch-f-35-shoots-down-russian-drone-displays-kill-marking/

by MGC91

30 comments

  1. Pretty sure the kill marking paint was more expensive than the drone.

  2. Oh but I’m weird for adding a sticker to my car every time I hit an old lady.

  3. Let’s do that more often instead of allowing drones to scan the environment for hours and letting them get back home safely.

  4. >Dutch F-35 fighter jets intercepted and destroyed Russian Gerbera drones that crossed into Polish airspace using AIM-9X Sidewinder missiles

    >The engagement underscores a major cost disparity between the systems. Each Gerbera drone is estimated at about $10,000, while a single AIM-9X missile costs approximately $2.8 million—a ratio of around 280 to 1.

    [source ](https://united24media.com/latest-news/dutch-f-35s-down-russian-10k-drones-in-poland-with-28m-aim-9x-missiles-11550)

    Using million-dollar missiles to shoot down cheap drones is not only economically wasteful; it may also be a deliberate Russian tactic to drain NATO’s missile stocks.

  5. I certainly did not have a Stealth fighter showing a kill mark for a $5000 styrofoam decoy drone on my bingo card for 2025.

  8. I means its literally a decoy drone made out of styrofoam and plywood, not even a Shaheed so Idk if they should flex that.

    Its like celebrating for shooting at flares and chaffs.

    Hope they didn’t wasted a missile on it, that would actually be a W for the drone.

  10. Thanks Russia, you just gave combat experience to Dutch pilot.

  11. Supposedly the missile that malfunctioned and landed in a house was also shot from it, not a Polish F-16, like they claimed before.

    So they should add a house symbol too.

    /s

  12. Personally I think it’s great for morale. IMO, well done.

  14. Shoot down everything hostile coming from outside of NATO borders immediately. Talk and dispute later.

  15. Shitty headline makes it seem like it just happened. More appropriate would be “We put a sticker on a plane”

  17. As everyone is discussing costs, I think it would be fair to say pilots need to meet their annual flying hours anyways, so the only ‘extra’ cost here is the cost of the missile being fired right?

  18. Does this mean there’s an F-16 a Polish house kill mark?

  19. I wonder what will happen with Europe since we can’t even agree about acting against the Russian threat. I mean when you start talking „does it even make financially sense to secure our borders?“ I really don’t know what’s left of this continent

  20. Isnt this a war already? Russia infiltrating Europe and Europe shooting their drones?

  22. Just like have had figther planes since ww1 we now need figther drones. They dont need to be able to compete with aircraft, only the drones they would hunt.

  23. why not send our drones in and make them waste their money instead?

  24. Interesting how for weeks there were calls here to take down airspace violations. Now that it’s happened, everyone is eager to say it was “wasteful”, as if the monetary value is the only thing that matters

  25. Noob queation, but why can’t it use it’s machine gun to shoot down the drone? Don’t these fighters have way advanced target tracking and locking computers for the guns too?

  26. An expensive but important response.

    Within a year we will have responses that are equivalent value; it just take a little bit of time to have your drone queen telling the hive where to go abd what to do.

    This is how it will work out

  29. Missiles are to expensive to shoot down drones, let’s ask Germany if they still have some FLAK units lying around

  30. Off sided cost, but you’re giving a military around lot of practical experience and reasons to keep growing.

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