Cheap Drones Are Changing Warfare

A bar chart of th ecost of Patriot and THAAD interceptor missiles vs Shahed drones, showing that the Shahed drones are a small fraction of the cost of interceptors

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Sources: Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (Vampire); Center for Strategic and International Studies (Shahed); Congressional Research Service (Patriot); American Enterprise Institute (THAAD)