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U.S. dismissed Ukraine deal for anti-Iran drone tech last year (www.axios.com)

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[–] disorderly@lemmy.world 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

You might read this article initially thinking it is just the US snubbing Ukraine yet again, but the real answer is laid out in black and white if you read further:

An Iranian Shahed is said to cost $20,000 to $50,000, depending on the model. The Ukrainian interceptors are even cheaper. Concerns about intercepting such a cheap, simple target with a multimillion-dollar munition spiked during U.S. fights against Houthi rebels in Yemen, and have remained high since.

You can practically hear the US MIC breathing heavily in the gallery during these talks. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan transferred trillions from US taxpayers to military contractors over 20 years, but a belligerent the size of Iran with modern warfare techniques could realize that dream again in 5.

[–] manxu@piefed.social 3 points 5 hours ago

That reminds me of when Silicon Valley VCs started telling us, "We don't fund software startups anymore. You need what, two, three million dollars in funding? We can't distribute a 50 billion fund in 2 million increments, we need some meat on the bones!"

They found the meat in AI, which explains why AI companies are so insanely bloated. Ukrainian drones are to US interceptor missiles like DeepSeek is to OpenAI.