The 1027th Anti-Aircraft Missile and Artillery Regiment carried out the interception, the General Staff said, as Russia has increasingly used faster jet-powered drones.
That’s the important question.
Wikipedia puts the price of the Geran-5 at ~$100 000.
The RBS-70 system is priced at €3.3 million (wikipedia), but that’s for the launch system, the price per missile is unclear. I can’t find a good number per missile so I used a big slop search machine which linked to various sources claiming prices of $100 000 - 1 mil, with the lower end being the more likely price.
Regardless of which estimate is correct, it unfortunately seems that using this Swedish system is not cost effective, even if you assume that every launch hits.
The only solace is that $100 000 in Russia represent more resources than in Sweden, but that still doesn’t make it cost effective.
Hey neat. I wonder what the cost per shot and hit rate is. This is a war of economics so I wonder how it stacks up.
That’s the important question. Wikipedia puts the price of the Geran-5 at ~$100 000. The RBS-70 system is priced at €3.3 million (wikipedia), but that’s for the launch system, the price per missile is unclear. I can’t find a good number per missile so I used a big slop search machine which linked to various sources claiming prices of $100 000 - 1 mil, with the lower end being the more likely price.
Regardless of which estimate is correct, it unfortunately seems that using this Swedish system is not cost effective, even if you assume that every launch hits. The only solace is that $100 000 in Russia represent more resources than in Sweden, but that still doesn’t make it cost effective.
But does that 100k prevent more than 100k in loss and damages, so that could help balance things too
Thank you for spending the time to look that up.