Project FREYJA: Europe Is Building Its Own Missile Shield Against Russia’s Ballistic Threat

maam ( maam@feddit.uk ) · 2 months ago

macniel ( DmMacniel@feddit.org ) · 2 months ago

Cost estimates for a successful intercept [by Freya] are around US$700,000 per shot, compared with roughly US$3.8 million for a Patriot missile.

Now that’s a margin.

erebion ( erebion@news.erebion.eu ) · 2 months ago

I wonder why it is still that expensive.

Curiositymonger ( Curiositymonger@reddthat.com ) · edit-2 2 months ago

I suspect patriots are not inherently that much more expensive. It is just the price they could fetch because there was no competition