Toy Drone Shot Down with Patriot Missile
March 15th, 2017Raytheon doesn’t mind.
Meanwhile, in France: French Military Trains Eagles to Hunt Drones
Via: BBC:
A Patriot missile – usually priced at about $3m (£2.5m) – was used to shoot down a small quadcopter drone, according to a US general.
The strike was made by a US ally, Gen David Perkins told a military symposium.
“That quadcopter that cost 200 bucks from Amazon.com did not stand a chance against a Patriot,” he said.
Patriots are radar-targeted weapons more commonly used to shoot down enemy aircraft and ballistic missiles.
“Now, that worked, they got it, OK, and we love Patriot missiles,” the general said.
Recently, there have been reports that some groups, for example in Iraq, have taken to attaching weapons to small, commercial drones and using them against security forces.
However, Gen Perkins suggested deploying large surface-to-air missiles as a defence was probably not economically wise.
“I’m not sure that’s a good economic exchange ratio,” he told an audience at the Association of the United States Army’s Global Force symposium in Alabama.
“In fact, if I’m the enemy, I’m thinking, ‘Hey, I’m just gonna get on eBay and buy as many of these $300 quadcopters as I can and expend all the Patriot missiles out there’.”
Wow, now that’s return on investment.
Almost as useful as shooting nukes into the atmosphere just to see what happens.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_nuclear_explosion
US tax dollars hard at work, who needs reasonably repaired roads/infrastructure? We’ve got $300 toys that need destroying.