*Interesting. I see these type systems as being designed specifically to deal with our surveillance/recon UAVs. Why waste missiles when guns will do...and do it cheaply. The cost benefit ratio of using UAVs is about to go down...way down...between pilot error, weather issues, landing issues and combat losses we might be approaching a time when UAVs are no longer the cheap throw away weapon they were intended to be.
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Even the cheapest Israeli UAV, the Heron, is still 2.5 million dollars.
ReplyDeleteA Predator is a bit over 10 million dollars.
The X-47 UCAV is probably going to be about 70 (or more) million dollars.
Your average MANPAD is $50,000.... do the math.
Again ANY enemy with real AA capability, UAVs had either be REALLY cheap, or not even used.
Even the Syrian rebels managed to shoot down a SAA UAV supplied by Iran in Homs.