"It costs between $1,300 and $2,200—and it goes up against Iranian and russian Shahed drones that cost around $50,000 to make."
"Now the Iran war has exposed America's overreliance on multimillion-dollar munitions to shoot down cheap Iranian Shaheds, according to Wild Hornets spokesman Alex Roslin, who argues the math just doesn't make sense."
Alex Roslin, Spokesperson, Wild Hornets: "They're using $4 million Patriot missiles. Patriots are scarce. But the United States has reportedly used 300 Patriots to knock down Shahed drones fired by Iran. That's $1.2 billion of Patriots against 300 Shaheds.
"And we could have taken down those drones with our interceptor drones for around $600,000. That's something that the world could learn from Ukraine."
Read the PBS report: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/ukraines-drone-defense-tech-reshapes-combat-as-warfare-evolves
Many thanks to reporters Simon Ostrovsky and Katia Patin for the report!
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