Comment on Killer drones pioneered in Ukraine are the weapons of the future
eleitl@lemmy.ml 3 months agoThat’s what it costs in Russia and North Korea. In the EU the costs are as I cited. And there are no production capacities at the volume required. China stopped exporting the specific type of cotton used for cordite production. Nitric acid is expensive and hard to get.
You can print billions of banknotes easily. You cant do that with millions of shells.
skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
russia and nk uses 152mm, not 155mm
eleitl@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
I am aware. The 3 mm calibre difference has no impact on fabrication costs.
skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
the difference is in different cost of workforce, different manufacturing standards, different materials, different fill, different fuze (easily 1/3 of cost),
eleitl@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
In terms of bucks per kill the West is doing an order of magnitude worse.