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>Something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matra_Durandal so about $30k, which is quite cheap

Uh, how do you plan to use dumb bombs like that in a conflict like Ukraine?

That would require you to be able to fly right over the enemy airfield, they'd need to have no air defenses whatsoever.

You'll damage a runway at the cost of a pilot (probably $5M+), aircraft (at least $10M), and dumb bombs ($30k each). Putting your total price paid for thousands of dollars worth of runway damage in the tens of millions.

> when a high intensity conflict with a real military power begins you can be sure most of your airports will be targets, which is exactly what happened to Ukraine, not even 2 weeks in the conflict

That kind of damage is fixed within hours at a cost of low thousands of dollars at most. Russia can do only it using incredibly expensive standoff-range missiles, spending at the very least hundreds of thousands if not millions to punch a hole on a runway that takes a few hours to repair.

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> Uh, how do you plan to use dumb bombs like that in a conflict like Ukraine? That would require you to be able to fly right over the enemy airfield, they'd need to have no air defenses whatsoever.

Eeeeh that's exactly what happened in the beginning of the conflict... they (Russia) had paratroopers in Kiev day 1

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Which was a barely contested treetop-skimming helicopter assault, and went extremely poorly.

You wouldn't have any luck dropping bombs like those out of helicopters.