"NATO radars often don't see incoming drones because "they fly too low." "And we are also quite short on means to shoot them down that have a proportionate cost-benefit balance," he told DW. Jermalavicius noted that the shooting down of Russian drones over Polish airspace on September 9 was a case in point, because missiles costing half a million dollars were used against drones that cost no more than $50,000 (42,930)."
"To address this, Jermalavicius suggests that startups should be central to drone defense strategies, especially since drone attacks now cause up to 80% of casualties in modern warfare. "Startups are disruptors of these lazy patterns that our procurement systems and our defense industrial players settle into over decades," he argued, adding that they are needed as a "thorn in the side of all these convenient arrangements" in order to speed up developments."
NATO radars often fail to detect low-flying drones, and current defenses lack proportionate, cost-effective means to neutralize them. Expensive interceptors, sometimes costing about $500,000, have been used against drones valued near $50,000, creating an unsustainable cost-to-kill ratio that could weaken air defenses during a full-scale war. Drone attacks now account for up to 80% of casualties in modern conflicts. Startups can provide affordable, scalable, and rapidly deployable anti-drone technologies and disrupt slow procurement and defense-industrial patterns. Firms such as Frankenburg Technologies are developing scalable anti-drone systems with regional presence in Europe.
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