Iranian Drone BombChavosh Homavandi for Jamejam Online, via Associated Press[/caption]
BUT THEY'RE BETWEEN FIVE AND FOURTEEN TIMES CHEAPER
Iran’s new suicide drone bomb is a wedding of unmanned technology and cruise missile utility. In the tradition of a wedding, the drone's Yasir-style body is borrowed, as it’s a derivative of captured American ScanEagle drones. There’s also something old: the concept of remotely piloted bombs is almost as old as flying itself. And together, they pose a very new threat that is a hodgepodge of the past, made especially deadly only through the economics of the present. The suicide drone provides strictly worse performance than a cruise missile, but it’s also loads cheaper. And that's enough to make enemy ships blue.
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