Today's drones are already popular on the battlefield, and what makes them so popular is because they can be used at a low cost. Often, a drone that costs only a few thousand dollars can directly destroy heavy army equipment that costs millions or even tens of millions, and even drones are used to launch strikes against manned warplanes, but such strikes are usually carried out while parked at airports. According to the information published by the media, India recently disclosed the country's first unmanned bomber, as an unmanned bomber, this load is only about 100 kilograms, which also means that larger missiles or iron bombs cannot be mounted, but the cost of India's unmanned bombers has reached a staggering $30 million, and this cost is only cheaper than the J-10CE fighter jets exported by China to Pakistan1, 0 million dollars, and this drone with limited performance is priced at a sky-high price, and it is clear that Indian drones are not taking the low-cost route.
India's ambitions in the field of defense are not small, and at the same time, India is also touting the so-called "Made in India", and the price of today's unmanned bombers has reached 30 million US dollars, which is equivalent to more than 200 million yuan. At present, China and Pakistan already have Hongqi-9 air defense missiles, although the use of this large air defense weapon to intercept UAVs is also regarded as a high-cost operation, and even regarded as a war of attrition, but the war research also believes that if the Hongqi-9 air defense missiles are used to fire at India's UAVs, it will not suffer at all.
Iran has used a large number of suicide drones to target Israel in the confrontation between Iran and Israel, and although Israel claims to have intercepted more than 90% of incoming air targets, Israel spent at least $1 billion in air defense interceptors overnight. In terms of positioning, Iran's drones are somewhat different from India's drones, which can even complete up to 20 hours of flight in the air with a payload of 100 kilograms, but the war research believes that if Iran wants to use it as an unmanned bomber, many of its performance is completely unreliable. For unmanned bombers, it is not necessary to hover in the air for a long time like a normal drone, and at the same time, the load capacity of such a drone also means that firepower is limited.
India is very unreliable in the manufacturing process of weapons and equipment, but regardless of the performance of the combat indicators of this 30 million drone, the war research believes that the reason why India wants to ensure that this drone will not crash during training and daily testing. In the past period, the Indian Air Force has lost a large number of fighters due to the crash, but the Rafale fighter jet of the Indian Air Force has not yet crashed.
At present, China's UAV strength is very strong, and the PLA has also shown a series of UAVs in the past period of time, in the face of India's so-called unmanned bombers, China is not worried at all, the PLA has more advanced UAV signals in its hands, TB-001 UAV also has more obvious advantages. Text/Iris