Originally Posted by
etudiant
Close air support at $100MM/unit, makes tactical ground to ground missiles at $1MM apiece look relatively affordable.
That's what puzzles me a bit as well. It's a high end bit of kit but it's used for the 'agricultural' part of the game. And the one where IR/MANPADs ans AAA that can be optically targeted when radar fails are the dominant A2A weapon to be expected to encounter.