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by cameldrv 410 days ago
They may recognize that it's an issue, but the problem is going to be procurement and manufacturing. Ukraine is building FPV drones for about $500 each. A Switchblade 300, which is roughly comparable to these, costs $60,000.

At those prices, we will never have the kind of quantities that Ukraine and Russia have.

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It was $500 per unit when they started building them in the first year of the war. It's closer to $400 per unit now, AFAIK, because they have learned where to cut corners without affecting efficiency.