Sep. 11 at 9:51 PM
$EOPSF “The thing that’s not appreciated is everybody keeps repeating the same tired cliche and headline about you shouldn’t kill a
$40,000 drone with a
$4,000,000 missile,” he said. “Well, then start buying more of the kind of UAS things that are already available, already fielded and already operational. Just go and turn up the volume dial on that. The drone dominant stuff talks about counter-UAS. Well, then, let’s go. Show me the money and start buying stuff.”
“It’s not as if we haven’t seen this problem coming,” said Karako. “One of my complaints is that nobody seems to be aware in the popular circles of any air defense below a Patriot. But there’s these whole categories of things called short-range air defense, counter-UAS and all this stuff that has been reinvigorated since about 2017. But the actual funding has been a little anemic in recent years. Now you’re seeing people hit the panic button.”
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