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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: AdrianC ⎊✹  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Shahed drones
Date: 03/04/26 2:28 PM
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Missile defense for $5 billion a day:
The New York Times: Dynamic Render

The battlefield costs add up quickly. Kavanagh estimates that the U.S. “easily” spent more than $10 billion on air-defense systems in the current war’s first 48 hours. That is largely attributed to the high-end weapons systems, such as the THAAD ($12.7 million per interceptor missile) and the Patriot ($3.7 million per missile), used to strike down attacking drones and missiles.

Asymmetric economics: The defense systems cost orders of magnitude more than the Iranian weapons they’re shooting down. One common Iranian drone, the Shahed-136, costs roughly $35,000 and can be quickly produced. In the first few days of the conflict, Iran launched as many as 2,000 drones, most of them Shaheds.

Oh boy.
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