Washington$10 million, a fifth of today’s Reaper price.
The target concedes that contested airspace now makes the drone a target, not an asset.
Once air defenses can reliably kill a drone, the only fix is making it cheap enough to lose.
The US Air Force is racing to field the design after recent Reaper losses to Iran.
How each outlet framed it
- The War Zone
- reports Air Force $10M unit-cost target for MMA versus $30-50M Reapers, links cuts to recent losses against Iran
Sources: The War Zone