Re:Pentagon: Trillion-Dollar Jet on Brink of Budgetary Disaster
by onemoreact on Thursday March 22, 2012 @02:22PM
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Edit: I don't work with such things, but posting the first version of this felt unwise so I cut a few things.
Stinger's cost ~38k and are not guaranteed to work so multiply that by the probability of failure.
You can buy drone control system can cost below 1,500$ ex: http://www.micropilot.com/products-mp1028g.htm, granted there are good reasons to buy / build something far more expensive but we are looking at low cost baseline. After that it's a question of range and payload for 10,000$ you can get an RC jet that can do 200 mph and carry a camcorder for surveillance. Call it 15k for a fairly respectable surveillance aircraft. As to being able to fight back just add a spike.
PS: Now figure out what you can do with say 10 billion$ aka 600,000 of these things. Worse yet that's just an opening, they are cheap enough that you have plenty of budget for other things.
Stinger's cost ~38k and are not guaranteed to work so multiply that by the probability of failure.
You can buy drone control system can cost below 1,500$ ex: http://www.micropilot.com/products-mp1028g.htm, granted there are good reasons to buy / build something far more expensive but we are looking at low cost baseline. After that it's a question of range and payload for 10,000$ you can get an RC jet that can do 200 mph and carry a camcorder for surveillance. Call it 15k for a fairly respectable surveillance aircraft. As to being able to fight back just add a spike.
PS: Now figure out what you can do with say 10 billion$ aka 600,000 of these things. Worse yet that's just an opening, they are cheap enough that you have plenty of budget for other things.