10,000 Why so cheap?

I mean they paid $52,000 for a trash bin on an e-3. War is a racket.

https://www.zerohedge.com/military/boeing-charges-pentagon-5...

zerohedge is Russian propaganda.

Even if that's true, it doesn't really matter here because the underlying facts are true. Here's previous discussion from another source;

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36445693&p=2

It does matter here because it should be a priority to point out sources of propaganda from a very threatening geopolitical foe who has spent the last decade going to great lengths to destablize the west.

CNN and BBC did that for years, but it's okay because it's not from the geopolitical foe?

Such incredible nonsense. Provide some evidence for your generalities that isn't just robo-hate to distract from your own states heinously grave misdeeds in the same department. Nobody usurps democracies like the USA does .. and no, anonymous "US intelligence officials" are not a proper source. Name names, homey.

It could have been written by Vladimir Putin himself for all it’s worth to my point, which is there are always funny number games played that never make normal math sense and only work in government lala land. That’s my point, that’s what you can argue against. Trying to silence me by critiquing my source and whatever else you are implying is just off putting. It’s a source, you don’t like it. Ok. There are other sources but really the particulars of the trash can aren’t even relevant, just that funny games are always played.

I'm not trying to silence you, I'm trying to point out that your source is Russian propaganda.

I don't really care what you think because it's likely that you're a lost cause if you're uncritically propagating a source like that. I'm more concerned with people who have never seen zerohedge before you post it and they become as mesmerized by the source as you seem to be.

Where's the evidence this is propaganda directly from the Russian state?

That's a bargain for the military if true

Which means it will be 10x the price, because of all the ten percents for the big guys.

In peace time maybe. In practice on the front expensive industrial drones like DJI Mavic 3 Thermal/Matrice lasts around a week when operating by Arty units and ~one day in infantry according to russian sources from half a year ago.

Western militaries are still in the outdated mindset of treating drones as assets instead of consumables. Germany keeps sending >$xxxK observation platforms to Ukraine despite contacts communicating back survivability rates. That one fixed wing drone cost more than 20 Mavics or 50 domestic drones, and isnt better in any way.