“The takeaway from Iran's tactics is that adversaries are likely to combine precision #weapons with #cheap, mass-produced #drones to overwhelm air defense systems so that the #precision weapons can get through.

Managing this threat means developing #LowCost defensive weapons, produced and used at #scale, to complement the interceptor missiles costing millions that are built to target aircraft and ballistic missiles.”

#Conflict / #economics <https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/23/nato_air_defenses/>

@epistatacadam @ChrisMayLA6
On the first clause, yes (but it measures what it measures).
On the second, it is a basic principle of #measurement that #accuracy and #precision should each be known and reckoned with, but that large departures from perfection in either or both do not prevent useful measurements being made.

(When the fiction is reduced the instrument needs recalibrating.)