Originally Posted by
Petit-Lion
Yes, but with this kind of accounting you are bound to lose a war of attrition. Ukraine must learn to defeat cheap weapons cheaply.
Fortunately there are another 15 Gepards going to be sent to Ukraine. That is about as cost effective as it gets against cheap drones like the Iranian ones.
Sadly it seems a good number of the former 430 Gepards of the German Army have been scrapped in the infite wisdom of the peace drunk politicians of the time 10 years ago.
New systems (Skyranger, Skynex) are expensive and only in the testing phase, i.e. not deliverable off the shelf. The carelessness for a Plan B of the European Politicians of the last two or three decades is mind boggling.