Loitering munitions are all low-altitude, low-flight hovering weaponry. The best solution is to simply just use aircraft sorties or even helicopters to shoot them down with their autocannons/machine guns, but obviously you can't build a military industrial complex around that.

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fragmede 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You can't? Lockheed Martin's new drone attack helicopter would like to have a word.

	▲	fakedang 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Drone attack helicopters aren't single-use disposable like these interceptors built by the startup are.

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1attice 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes everyone knows a billion dollar F-35 flying at stalling speed is the best approach here

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Tostino 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

~100M*, but your point stands.

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1attice 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Not if you factor in the R&D

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Tostino 9 hours ago | parent [-]

That's roughly the export price for them I've seen reported, which I would assume would cover some of the R&D.

	▲	1attice 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Good lord, that is not how geopolitics works. You are supposing a normal market, not conditions of statecraft and network effect.

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fakedang 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Disingenuous much?