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Finally, a Drone Killer That Doesn’t Break the Bank – HotAir

Everybody is talking about drone warfare, which has democratized long-range, low-risk strikes on adversaries. 

Capabilities that used to be the exclusive province of major militaries with large, very capable air forces with stealth aircraft are now available to everyone, including countries like Iran and even terrorist groups living in medieval conditions like the Houthis. 





Even before Trump and Biden decided to ramp up their attacks on the Houthis, the US had spent nearly a billion dollars and expended a lot of hard-to-replace munitions to shoot down inexpensive drones that have been attacking commercial shipping and naval vessels, shutting down almost all shipping in the Red Sea. 

 

You can argue that the cost was worth it–it probably was, as Alex Hollings of Sandboxx News argued, but you can’t…

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