lol, at what point (I guess this one) does $120,000 unit cost and extended production time become a disqualifying factor in the design specs of a single use explosive weapon?
That $120,000 cost is probably unrealistically bloated because the military-industrial complex is completely deranged. No way even remotely that much actual labor goes into making one of those, it probably mostly goes to capitalist pockets.
Devices that don’t even work that well. We have sent how many tens of thousands of Stingers and Javelins to Ukraine to be used against Soviet era tanks and helicopters, and they’ve managed to knock out maybe a couple hundred tanks/APCs and a negligible amount of helicopters/jets?
In the yanks' defence those weapons are being operated by woefully untrained soldiers. They would probably be less shitty if they were being operated by people who were trained to use them.
And those soldiers were trained on mostly Soviet and Russian systems and had to learn to operate the new systems first. This has been a problem for the Ukraine from day one, they simply lack the time and resources to do proper training.
lol, at what point (I guess this one) does $120,000 unit cost and extended production time become a disqualifying factor in the design specs of a single use explosive weapon?
That $120,000 cost is probably unrealistically bloated because the military-industrial complex is completely deranged. No way even remotely that much actual labor goes into making one of those, it probably mostly goes to capitalist pockets.
Devices that don’t even work that well. We have sent how many tens of thousands of Stingers and Javelins to Ukraine to be used against Soviet era tanks and helicopters, and they’ve managed to knock out maybe a couple hundred tanks/APCs and a negligible amount of helicopters/jets?
In the yanks' defence those weapons are being operated by woefully untrained soldiers. They would probably be less shitty if they were being operated by people who were trained to use them.
Ukraine had nearly 100k NATO trained soldiers up to NATO standards at the start of the war
Had.
And those soldiers were trained on mostly Soviet and Russian systems and had to learn to operate the new systems first. This has been a problem for the Ukraine from day one, they simply lack the time and resources to do proper training.