{"id":96119,"date":"2026-03-29T07:39:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T07:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/96119\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T07:39:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T07:39:32","slug":"wild-hornets-were-on-pbs-newshour-this-sting-drone-is-a-perfect-example-of-the-asymmetric-warfare-that-ukrainians-excel-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/96119\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Hornets were on PBS NewsHour! &#8220;This STING drone is a perfect example of the asymmetric warfare that Ukrainians excel at&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/vb8zx10buxrg1.jpeg\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>&quot;It costs between $1,300 and $2,200\u2014and it goes up against Iranian and russian Shahed drones that cost around $50,000 to make.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Now the Iran war has exposed America&#39;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&#39;t make sense.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Alex Roslin, Spokesperson, Wild Hornets: &quot;They&#39;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&#39;s $1.2 billion of Patriots against 300 Shaheds.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;And we could have taken down those drones with our interceptor drones for around $600,000. That&#39;s something that the world could learn from Ukraine.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Read the PBS report: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/show\/ukraines-drone-defense-tech-reshapes-combat-as-warfare-evolves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/show\/ukraines-drone-defense-tech-reshapes-combat-as-warfare-evolves<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to reporters Simon Ostrovsky and Katia Patin for the report!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON --><br \/>\n<br \/>&#8212;<br \/>\nAlexRoslin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&quot;It costs between $1,300 and $2,200\u2014and it goes up against Iranian and russian Shahed drones that cost around&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[77],"class_list":{"0":"post-96119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@forums\/116311366277724491","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}