British-made Rapid Ranger’s 360-degree situational awareness radar and LMM Martlet infrared/laser guidance can hit Shaheds at up to 7 km.
    • Skua@kbin.earth
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      8 days ago

      I don’t have numbers for you, but it’ll definitely be cheaper to produce. The two systems aren’t really competitors, they’re built for different roles. Rapid Ranger is the lightweight and cheap one for countering more numerous threats, Iris-T SLM is the fancy high-capability one for countering more rarer but more difficult threats

    • hoch@lemmy.world
      3·
      8 days ago

      Roughly 10x cheaper from what I’m seeing ($50,000/missile vs $500,000/missile)