Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: sci.physics,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Israeli Faces From Earlier Today :-) Date: 8 Mar 2024 02:04:19 GMT Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 9O/iC+nlzmCOTSVt/N2aJQjIATSVLgVgN1UGmomZ2ixOTfGgzS Cancel-Lock: sha1:9rxPEvvl1fv42pawNWL/u/Isf28= sha256:Szn+Y6UL0FohavPW8rGnYHG89nEJvKmGfvjtxhD4GI0= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Bytes: 2404 On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 13:26:31 -0800, trolidous wrote: > But what are the advantages of the Shahed 136? Among other things the cost estimate for a lawnmoer is $20K. https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-germanys-iris-t-air-defense-system/ a-63414859 The cost for one of the IRIS-T systems's missiles is about $500K. The Patriot system missiles may be 10 times that. https://www.defensenews.com/land/2019/06/05/house-panel-wants-cheaper- patriot-missile/ Ka-chinnng! If Zelensky was really paying for any of this the Ukraine would be in debt until 2417. The famous Iron Dome must be a money sink too. Troll them with a $5K DJI drone and you've got a hell of a cost/ benefit ratio.