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Yeah, they use a flying lawnmower. This is something I've said many times on this platform which nobody seems to grasp.
If the missile you fire is worth ten times what it's intercepting, that's a problem for you, because your enemy can just keep firing cheap shit until you run out of missiles.
Even a successful intercept is a win for them, because you're down a million dollars, and they're down 60 grand.
Money is funny.
When Russia invaded Ukraine and their tractor factories retooled to make tanks, their GDP dropped tenfold. Because a tractor is worth ten times as much as a tank.
But the people who put their boots on and go to work and weld metal shit...continued to put their boots on and go to work and weld metal shit.
Edit: I would also like to point out, as the guy that you commented on did in a roundabout way, the calculation is not $Missile </> $Interceptor. The calculation is $Missile </> $Interceptor + $Target.
what tractor is worth ten times as much as what tank?!
I believe the point was that a tractor's economic output is 10x a tanks, not the initial cost of each.
A tank's economic output is zero. A tractor is infinitely more beneficial.
There's a couple Ohio senators that represent one of the few places that welds military-grade armor in the US that would strongly disagree with that assessment.
There's a reason the army gets more tanks than they know what to do with, and part of that reason is maintaining expertise that takes decades to develop.