• gnutrino
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    19 hours ago

    drones are massively cheaper and per-unit also more effective than these other anti-tank weapons you mention.

    Not really, tanks aren’t being taken out by your cheap and cheerful $400 fpv drones. They need something like a Lancet at minimum which Wikipedia tells me has a $35,000 (or $37,000 - i guess using different exchange rates?) export price which is actually a bit more than a Kornet ATGM at $26,000 (thanks again Jimmy Wales).

    • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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      18 hours ago

      An AT4 missile is about 3000 bucks, but tanks still exist.

      A bullet is a few cents, yet soldiers are pretty popular in every conflict too.

      It’s almost as if this is a shitty argument.

    • poVoq@slrpnk.netM
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      18 hours ago

      There is a huge range of drone between fpv drones and those complex loitering ammunition you mention. The ones most commonly mentioned and deployed by Ukraine against tanks, cost a few thousand at most.