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But can NASAMS shoot down Fateh-110s and Zolfaqar Ballistic missiles?
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"From a military standpoint, they’ve only been a nuisance"
You mean the in numerous military and strategic targets they've attacked over the past month? The amount of AD missiles Ukrops have wasted downing 20k drones? That serves no purpose? Only a terror weapon? Americans literally cannot handle being checkmated it's so funny. Can't wait until NASAMS are rusted pieces of scrap being scraped off the streets of Kiev.
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No, and also I just looked up the weapon system in question and it turns out that each round is about $1.2 million, making it very expensive even if it were to hit an s-136...
Defeating the Cost Curve in Ukraine – Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance
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$2.9 billion for weapons: 6 NASAMS air defense systems, UAVs, ammunition, but still no ATACMS • Mezha.Media
First, six air defense systems NASAMS in addition to those two that were transferred in July. Most likely, we are again talking about NASAMS platoon kits,
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Shaheds will fall, fall on your head that is. Just the fact that he deemed it necessary to shoot this video, proves that these drones are doing their job. If Ukraine was really able to shoot down 80%+ of these drones, then why even mention them ? Why bother ?
What I'm wondering is, what are they going to do once Russia deploys the Arash-2 UAVs ? Or what are they going to do once Russia begins using Iranian missiles ? Expect the mother of all panic attacks from the west.
NASAMS is too expensive to be a viable solution. Even if it can successfully shoot down Shahed drones, the cost factor will devastate suck western coffers dry. Not to mention the fact that Shaheds can always be used to saturate the airspace. In the end they can't shoot them all down and even when they do it will be a huge loss. $1 million spent to shoot down a $20,000 UAV ? Not to mention all the other expenses associated with the platform. Good luck with that.
So far they've wiped out half of Ukraine's vital infrastructure and the west now has to spent billions to counter them. Even when your NASAM can shoot them down, it's still a huge loss. You're spending $1 million to shoot down a $20,000 UAV. Face it Iranian engineering has surpassed you. You have no viable solution to effectively deal with these. Not to mention 6 NASAM units will not be enough. Shaheds can manoever and saturate the airspace.
What is NASAMS going to do once all of its missiles have been launched the there are still more Shaheds coming ? In Saudi Arabia Shahed drones destroyed a Patriot battery. What are you going to say once they wipe out NASAMS ? Because as soon as you begin launching missiles you will be giving away its location. Let's say you launch all 9 of your missiles against 12 Shaheds ? Then you're helpless and the Shaheds will now be updated with your coordinates. LOL
What I'm wondering is, what are they going to do once Russia deploys the Arash-2 UAVs ? Or what are they going to do once Russia begins using Iranian missiles ? Expect the mother of all panic attacks from the west.
NASAMS is too expensive to be a viable solution. Even if it can successfully shoot down Shahed drones, the cost factor will devastate suck western coffers dry. Not to mention the fact that Shaheds can always be used to saturate the airspace. In the end they can't shoot them all down and even when they do it will be a huge loss. $1 million spent to shoot down a $20,000 UAV ? Not to mention all the other expenses associated with the platform. Good luck with that.
So far they've wiped out half of Ukraine's vital infrastructure and the west now has to spent billions to counter them. Even when your NASAM can shoot them down, it's still a huge loss. You're spending $1 million to shoot down a $20,000 UAV. Face it Iranian engineering has surpassed you. You have no viable solution to effectively deal with these. Not to mention 6 NASAM units will not be enough. Shaheds can manoever and saturate the airspace.
What is NASAMS going to do once all of its missiles have been launched the there are still more Shaheds coming ? In Saudi Arabia Shahed drones destroyed a Patriot battery. What are you going to say once they wipe out NASAMS ? Because as soon as you begin launching missiles you will be giving away its location. Let's say you launch all 9 of your missiles against 12 Shaheds ? Then you're helpless and the Shaheds will now be updated with your coordinates. LOL
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Well the way Russia use it is not what we have in head ... imagine 500 of them would release at once & even if half of them get to the targets job is done while the targeted country AD grid has emptied and sutured ,real drones and missile would do the rest.
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One Switchblade drone costs $70,000. One of the reasons Shahed drone are so effective is because of their low cost. Not only are they effective on the battlefield but they are also "cost effective" Which makes them into a nightmare for the NATO forces. To put it simply, the west has no viable answer to these drones. Sure they have air defense systems that can shoot down Shahed drones, but the NASAMS air defense system, each missile costs $1 million, Patriot $3 million. Even the US C-RAM costs $15 million dollars a unit. In a saturation attack, these systems are doomed. They'll run out of munitions in no time and then become targets themselves. At a cost of $20,000 each, it's worth it to use these just to deplete the enemies air defenses. After that they'll be pretty much helpless.
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Caution, Binkov's cargo cultish. Doesn't have deep and broad view.
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i watched that video - Binkov doesnt have up to date knowledge on Iranian drones or Iranian drone technology, he said a few things that were either false or bogus in that video.
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This small thing costs 70000 dollars
And people say size dosent matter lol
The accomplishment of these suicide drones have even reached india
They are amazing to overwhelm an enemy
I read a report on how they are destroying most of Ukraine's strategic bases .
How much does it cost to make a shahedd ?
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