Comments on: Shooting down a $1,000 drone with a $5,000 missile is not a winning strategy https://www.isegoria.net/2024/07/shooting-down-a-1000-drone-with-a-5000-missile-is-not-a-winning-strategy/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 28 May 2026 04:47:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Lucklucky https://www.isegoria.net/2024/07/shooting-down-a-1000-drone-with-a-5000-missile-is-not-a-winning-strategy/comment-page-1/#comment-3697087 Lucklucky Sun, 14 Jul 2024 03:21:10 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=51100#comment-3697087 “It is a winning strategy if (1) you’re protecting a target worth more than $5K,”

First a country wealth is much bigger than the year GDP output.

Second your missile is not only curtailed by cost, but also by production capabilities including workforce and device complexity. How much time takes to build a missile? How many can get out of factories by month?

In short you might be out of missiles before you are out of money.

]]> By: Ezra https://www.isegoria.net/2024/07/shooting-down-a-1000-drone-with-a-5000-missile-is-not-a-winning-strategy/comment-page-1/#comment-3696725 Ezra Fri, 12 Jul 2024 09:18:17 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=51100#comment-3696725 More like shooting down a $20K drone with a $1 million dollar missile.

]]> By: Jim https://www.isegoria.net/2024/07/shooting-down-a-1000-drone-with-a-5000-missile-is-not-a-winning-strategy/comment-page-1/#comment-3696639 Jim Fri, 12 Jul 2024 00:10:51 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=51100#comment-3696639 In my mind’s eye, I see high-cost Predator-like drones circling like eternal aluminum birds high above, armed with directed energy weapons powered by very small nuclear reactors, as swarms of low-cost quadcopter-like drones duke it out with each other near the surface of the Earth.

]]> By: AMJ https://www.isegoria.net/2024/07/shooting-down-a-1000-drone-with-a-5000-missile-is-not-a-winning-strategy/comment-page-1/#comment-3696562 AMJ Thu, 11 Jul 2024 13:49:59 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=51100#comment-3696562 It is a winning strategy if (1) you’re protecting a target worth more than $5K, and (2) you’re richer than the enemy shooting at you. But yes, expediting the fielding of HPM and lasers to counter cheap drones absolutely is something DoD should and in fact is doing right now.

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