DJI Drone Flies over the Top of Mount Everest

Re:DJI Drone Flies over the Top of Mount Everest by TMWNN on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @11:30PM (#32658047)

>The problem is that the counter drone technology, if it is a drone itself, will necessarily always be more expensive than the attack drone (because it must follow the attack drone).

Same argument made against Israel's Iron Dome against Hamas's more or less crude rockets.

Said argument misses the point. The question isn't whether an Iron Dome missile is more expensive than a Hamas rocket (it is). It's whether an Iron Dome missile is more valuable than the lives and property lost by letting that Hamas rocket through.

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Re:DJI Drone Flies over the Top of Mount Everest by spoonjim on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @01:07AM (#32658577)

Yes, but this works because Israel has access to vastly more money than Hamas does. So they can withstand a 10^X cost discrepancy. It would not work between two parties who are close to evenly matched financially.

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