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Cheap Iranian drone downed $25 million US Army helicopter—maybe by chance (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 7 points 5 months ago (7 children)

The math works out in the Drones’ favor I think. $25M/$35K -> a 1:714 ratio of helicopters to drones, on a dollar-to-dollar basis. So.. I’d say “by probability” instead.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    This is the primary reason the us military budget should go from 1.5 trillion to 0.5 trillion. If we shifted to drone dominance the cost would go way down, we’d have a stronger military, and we could use that extra trillion to pay down debt, fund more healthcare, share profits with US citizens, the list of possible amazing things is huge.

    Will we do this? Maybe eventually but not while we have big strong dumbass in charge.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    World needs less weapons, not more, cheaper ones (making human life even cheaper). Find a better list (healthcare is fine, like civilized countries have). Maybe some soft power helping others, oh, wait, mad king....

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    If it took Russia so long with far smaller military budget, for USA it would take an existential war, so abundance of funds is sort of a defense social contract. Things cost 5x what they could, but they get designed, produced, procured, maintained and combined into a system.

    Unless there's some political struggle where the old military industry supports one side and the other needs a new military.

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