Dutch F-35 fighter jets shot down russian drones over Poland with $2.8 million missiles, media reports say.
The cost of a Gerber drone is around $10,000. The fighter jets used $2.8 million AIM-9X missiles to destroy it.
The difference between the cost of the target and the method of destruction is 280 times higher.
And:
NATO has a worse success rate in shooting down russian drones than Ukraine, the BBC reports.
While Ukraine shot down 93% of 415 drones today and regularly achieves similar figures, the Poles, with the support of allies from other countries, destroyed only four of 19 russian drones.
That's hardly an impressive result for Poland, especially considering how much more equipment they had at their disposal compared to Ukraine, the BBC summarizes.
Re: Ukraine war thread
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2025 1:05 pm
by Dr Strangelove
TLDR the drones were decoys/pathfinders but the NATO response time, Kill/Miss ratio and cost were all very exploitable.