Crutonius
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Optimus bots?
That does sound like a good plan.
I remember reading about how a patriot missile cost a few million dollars and a shaheed drone cost 40k. Seems like things like the Gepard are a great solution for that. I wonder if that's how it's working out.
I notice a lot of M113s have been going to Ukraine lately. The US must be clearing out the depot of these old infantry vehicles. I would guess they are probably pretty easy to bring back into service. They are pretty simple designs. Basically a box on treads.
I would like to see the US get some of the M163s back from Chile. Chile has a lot of them. The M163 is an M113 chassis with the Vulcan 20mm cannon from the F-4 Phantom and a radar dish. It would be a very cheap to feed anti-drone system. The Gepard has proven its worth, but the ammunition for it is in short supply. US 20mm cannon ammunition is cheap and easy to come by.
The US retired the last M163 in the early 1990s, but Chile has something like 900 of them.
That does sound like a good plan.
I remember reading about how a patriot missile cost a few million dollars and a shaheed drone cost 40k. Seems like things like the Gepard are a great solution for that. I wonder if that's how it's working out.