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Last I heard, Russia pays about $60k for each one of these. I have no clue how they manage to be so expensive.
Simple. The defense minister tells the president they’re buying a new $60k drone, then he calls up one of his generals, orders him to but a new drone, and he had $40k to do it. The general calls his colonel and tells him he had $30k to buy a drone. The colonel calls a captian and tells him he has $20k to buy a new drone…
By the time the procurement officer actually buys the damn thing, he has a budget of $100. So, of course, he buys the finest drone on the market $50 can buy.
At the rate they're running out of stock, I presume the original order was for 1000 of these, and the procurement officer sent a receipt for the purchase and a photo of himself with a sample and 999 empty boxes with photoshopped labels taped on in the warehouse.