• Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 hours ago

    Are you getting your figure from an updated source? The article says:

    “The Air Force announced its final five-year purchasing contract forReapers in 2020, and manufacturer General Atomics closed the production line last year after building 575 of them. The final lot cost about $16 million each when purchased in a batch of four, according to C. Mark Brinkley, a General Atomics spokesman.”

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      23 minutes ago

      I had heard anywhere from 15-50 depending on load out, $30M is from Ars,

      “military’s current reliance on drones and crewed aircraft, each costing more than $30 million,”

      I might’ve been wrong, of course. Million here, million there, soon you’re talking about real money