[mlindner]

> I can see them capturing US DOD budgets, but predict that much more cost effective competitors emerge internationally.

The selling point of Anduril according to one of its founders has always been "Make billions of dollars while saving the US government tens of billions of dollars."

I don't think people really understand how much money is thrown around willy-nilly within the Department of Defense. Anduril's offering to sell drones here with individual purchase prices in the $100k-$500k range here. Compared to the alternatives used for this role it's 1-2 orders of magnitude cheaper.

[notyofriend]

Are we really going to be 500k drones to shoot down 10k ones. Seems wasteful

[mlindner]

They're not $500k. And currently it's $4M missiles shooting down $10k ones, and you need to often shoot several of them to ensure that you down the target.

[notyofriend]

I guess it’s ok if the gdp difference between the 2 warring countries is at least at the same order of magnitude. Actually dollar numbers probably don’t matter as much as dollar/unit gdp