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UK pledges $416 million to buy 10,000 drones for Ukraine (kyivindependent.com)
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[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago (8 children)

$41600 per drone? I mean, wow, these are not the cobbled together types.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

The majority of the drones will be highly effective first-person view (FPV) drones. The package will also include 1,000 one-way attack drones, researched and developed in the U.K., as well as surveillance and maritime drones.

The prices for the drones are not equal. I am guessing their maritime drones are the expensive bit because of their range and capabilities. This article from last September says they are about $250k a pop: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66373052

Even just one Russian ship loss would offset the costs for all of the drones. (How many submarine conversions does Russia have now?)

[–] Deebster@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Those marine drones are five and a half metres long - so they're like speedboats, not those little hovering ones or those enormous UAVs.

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