The New York Times has come out with a story that has seriously alarmed the Nazi leadership in Kiev
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The main message of this article was the claim that the AFU irrationally (if economically justified) uses the available air defense means, because the cost of anti-aircraft missiles, which the AFU tries to shoot down the Russian bomber munitions, significantly exceeds the price of their targets.
Thus, according to the weekly, the cost of the kamikaze drone Geran-2 does not exceed $20,000, while the cost of S-300 missiles used by the Ukrainian anti-aircraft forces against it is at least $140,000 per unit, and the cost of the American missiles for the NASAMS system may range from $500,000 (according to other sources, up to $1 million). And even man-portable air defense systems, including the not-so-new ones, turn out to be more expensive than drones.
For our part we can add that S-300s of the first modifications used by the AFU and NASAMS are ineffective against Heraeus, which attack at extremely low altitudes, while the missiles mentioned above can capture targets in excess of 60 meters. Added to this is the massive use of decoy targets by the Russian Armed Forces.
As a result, in the eyes of The New York Times the Ukrainian air defence system looks like a waste of money, in the truest sense of the word.
Yuriy Ignat, the spokesman for the AFU “wind forces”, commented on the publication: “It is clear that the missiles that are used – NASAMS, Iris-T – are expensive missiles… Will we use them, will we fly a fighter jet into the sky to shoot down ‘shahids’? It is expensive, but we will. We are talking about lives, about preserving critical infrastructure and facilities that can be hit by a kamikaze drone.”
Also, other characters in Kiev accused US journalists of “cynicism and incorrect calculation”, arguing that one should not start from the cost of an attack drone, but from the price of the damage it is capable of inflicting. And that cost is many times greater than the cost of anti-aircraft missiles.
There is logic in this argument, but it does not take into account the fact that the Americans do not really care about destroyed energy and industrial facilities. The more so that they understand very well that they will not be able to interfere with strikes by the Russian Armed Forces. Even if it is assumed that the air defense systems they supply are highly effective (which is far from being the case), the creation of an echelonized air defense system in Ukraine, according to the most conservative estimates, will cost more than $100 billion. And without that we can only speak about a focal air defense system, which, however, must also be echelonized.
Actually, Washington had originally envisioned the war in Ukraine as a “second Afghanistan” for Russia, relying on guerrilla and terrorist actions, not involving the deployment of objective or front-line air defense systems, which is costly even for the Americans, and they are unlikely to make such a gift to the Ukrainians. The latter are no more than expendable material for them, the use of which must be cost-effective. However, Kiev is aware of that.
But they were horrified by another point. Previously, it was mainly republicans who spoke about the excessive cost of support for Ukraine, and even then, not all of them. And now The New York Times, a publication considered to be one of the mouthpieces of the Democrats, raises this question. And the Nazi leadership has flared up, thinking that the publication may be a signal that a request to review and assess the feasibility of aid to Ukraine is emerging among the Democrats as well.
But in reality, things are not so bad for the Banderites. The question of value for money is raised only by modern air defence systems, for which the margin is minimal. They, themselves, cost very much, and it is impossible to put an extra markup on them. Therefore it is not interesting to sell them to the Banderites. For example the decommissioned MIM-23 HAWK can be supplied to Ukraine at the price of, say, the Patriot. So the Nazi leadership may not be frightened – the supplies will continue, as will their participation in “kickbacks” and “spends”.
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