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A small quadcopter drone was shot down with a Patriot missile, which usually cost around $3m (£2.5m), a US general has said.
General David Perkins told a military symposium "a very close ally" used the surface-to-air missile to bring down the drone.
"They shot it down with a Patriot missile," the general said, in comments shared by the US Army on YouTube. "Now that worked, they got it, okay, and we love Patriot missiles."
Patriots are radar-guided missiles designed to shoot down enemy missiles, travelling at five times the speed of sound to strike its target.
Can you say overkill? What moron uses a 3 million dollar to shoot down a small drone? I am assuming they didn't pay for the missile and it ultimately comes out of our pockets...
Expensive training exercise.
My money is on a Gulf state.
Operators of Patriot Missiles:
*Germany
*Greece
*Israel
*Japan
*Kuwait
*Netherlands
*Qatar
*Saudi Arabia
*South Korea
*Spain
*Taiwan (Republic of China)
*United Arab Emirates
*United States
As long as we're selling them to those countries at $3 million a piece, why is this a problem? Jobs for American workers.
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