US sends copycat drones to the Middle East to 'flip script' on Iran
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Somehow, I am 100% sure that our version still costs 1000% of the price even though we completely copied it 😑
According to the graphic in the article the US clone is 35k a pop where the low end estimate of the production cost of Shaheds is 20k a pop.
Having it assembled by someone who makes slightly over 11 cents an hour probably has something to do with that.
China’s making them for us? 😉
I stand corrected.
Evil empire goes full throttle.