[close04]

The home page shows 3 consecutive press releases for the past 3 days each detailing a similar incident.

The first drone on 24.07 took ~80min to intercept and shoot down, well into the country. The other 2 were shot down within kilometers of the border so they’re paying closer attention.

[bestham]

The asymmetry between the drones and the F16 neutralising them quickly makes this financially unsustainable.

[lukan]

Yes, but it also trains the pilots and everything around them for real action in a non war environment (you cannot just shoot anywhere in civilian airspace).

And they would need to train anyway.

But for a real conflict, sure, more economical solutions are on the way.

[AnimalMuppet]

I believe that Sun Tsu said something about using your enemy's military to train your military.

[spiderfarmer]

I love how people are pointing this out thinking NATO countries aren’t currently doing a Manhattan-light on drone defense.

[firefax]

I think the idea is that you don't keep sending just one F16, but the problem is long before an age of drones we built up some catch me if you can bullshit where we expect smaller countries to ignore airspace violations.

Like bro... you got a GPS. Get the fuck out of here.