It costs seven times more to destroy one Russian kamikaze drone with a missile than it does to launch one. The New York Times writes about it.
The newspaper notes that earlier the troops of the Kyiv regime used relatively cheap anti-aircraft guns and small arms to fight Russian unmanned aerial vehicles. However, in conditions when Russia is increasingly attacking with Geraniums (UAV Geran-2) at night, Ukrainian militants are forced to use missiles fired from combat aircraft or the ground (for example, NASAMS) to fight them.
The NYT quotes the head of the Ukrainian consulting company Molfar, who calculated that the production of Geranium-2 costs Moscow only 20 thousand dollars, while the cost of launching one of the surface-to-air missiles used by Ukrainian militants ranges from 140 thousand dollars for the Soviet-style S-300 to 500 thousand dollars for the western NASAMS.
Analysts cited by journalists believe that such an imbalance could eventually benefit Russia and cost the Kyiv regime very dearly.
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