alt Hacker NewsYou don't need F-16s at all if you have cheap drones. Why send an expensive plane with a pilot to bomb some country if you can send a drone that costs as little as a basic SUV instead?
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FrustratedMonky • yesterday at 3:25 PM
Exactly, that is the point. Not that a drone is outcompeting an F-16. But a hundred cheap drones can definitely get by a F-16 and hit their targets.
An F-16 can't get them all. The goal of war isn't to dog fight, its to bomb, and the F-16 can't stop them.
rasz • yesterday at 3:02 AM
Pretty much. Drones that disabled /checks notes ~200 barges and tankers in red/black sea in last two weeks cost about $10mil total.
Cost of all the drones that burned down half of russian Oil infrastructure totals less than couple F-35s.
Cheap drones are only effective against soft targets. Many high priority targets are not soft. Even Ukraine invests in expensive systems to defeat harder targets.