1y ago

UK pledges $416 million to buy 10,000 drones for Ukraine

kyivindependent.com

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$41600 per drone? I mean, wow, these are not the cobbled together types.
- the EW war is going to make retail cots drones a bit less common at the front
- The majority of the drones will be highly effective first-person view (FPV) drones. The package will also include 1,000 one-way attack drones, researched and developed in the U.K., as well as surveillance and maritime drones.
  The prices for the drones are not equal. I am guessing their maritime drones are the expensive bit because of their range and capabilities. This article from last September says they are about $250k a pop: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66373052
  Even just one Russian ship loss would offset the costs for all of the drones. (How many submarine conversions does Russia have now?)
  
  This is a fair take. Those marine drones are doing amazing work.
  Somewhere in a timeline with an alternative timeline in Imperial Japan, there's a guy going "what if we didn't have to put pilots in our flying bombs...". And a bean counter is figuring out if that'll save money.
  
  Those marine drones are five and a half metres long - so they're like speedboats, not those little hovering ones or those enormous UAVs.
- I was looking at buying sprayer drones with 40kg payload, $35000 a pop.
  
  What kind of spray would make Russians go away?
Who's their drone guy?
I know a guy
Don't they 3D print a lot of those parts?
Hmm proxy wars are getting even more expensive...
- "Yes, people are dying, but won't someone think about the money?"

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