Comment by jandrewrogers
11 hours ago
> A million dollar patriot missile to shoot down a cheap drone...
I guess it is a good thing then that this isn't something they actually do.
They use cheap weapons to shoot down cheap drones. Their primary anti-drone missile was developed in the 2010s and costs less than a Shahed.
Yet these cheap and effective weapons failed to protect high value targets, esp. radars.
That's a question of deployment, not capability. They've been used widely in the Middle East against drones since the 2010s with considerable success.
Which system are you talking about?
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Yes a 99% success rate versus like 600 incoming still means some of them will get through.
Which is the same reason no level of military power is going to keep the Strait of Hormuz open (or at least, no level beyond a truly absurd one and even then - see the Kerch bridge in Crimea).
Iran's stuff is short range.
But Orange Dementia didn't even think about that.