RUSSIA’S BUDGET BOMBERS GO HIGH - UKRAINE FORCED TO SPEND BIG
Russia’s Shahed drones just leveled up - now diving from 2km altitudes and hitting 180 mph, too fast for machine guns to take them out.
Each drone costs less than a luxury SUV, but takes $300K+ missiles to shoot down. Patriot system? That’s $4M per interception.
Some are warhead-free decoys, sent just to drain defenses - Moscow’s turning drone spam into strategy.
Shaheds aren’t smart, they’re relentless, and Russia’s betting Ukraine runs out of missiles before it runs out of knockoff drones.
Source: Business Insider