Ukraine is making anti-Shahed missiles that have to cost less than $20,000 per shot
Source: Business Insider ·
The $20,000 hard cap set by Brave1 would make these Ukrainian missiles cost a sixth of a typical Stinger missile.
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Soldiers from the 148th Separate Artillery Zhytomyr Brigade of the Ukrainian Airborne Forces fire strike missiles from a BM-21 Grad MLRS.Dmytro Smolienko/Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesUkraine is funding air defense missiles with a hard cap of $20,000 per shot, Brave1's chief said.That's about a sixth the cost of a Stinger missile, and still cheaper than an APWKS 70mm rocket.It's one of Kyiv's responses to Russia's thousands-strong, inexpensive Shahed fleets.Ukraine has been running a yearslong weapons program to develop cheap surface-to-air missiles that cost no more than $20,000 each, said Andrii Hrytseniuk, the head of its Brave1 startup incubator.Several firms have been testing prototypes under this framework, and Kyiv is "preparing to put two of these companies into combat," Hrytseniuk said in a video interview published with Ukrainska Pravda on Thursday.He expressed hope that a third would soon reach a similar stage.Hrytseniuk said some of these manufacturers have managed…