Overkill: $3 Million Patriot Missile Used to Take Down $200 Drone: ‘Not A Good Economic Ratio’

Talk about a mismatch of power, and use of excessive force.
An unnamed ‘ally of the U. S.’ apparently felt so picked on by the pesky tactics of the other side that it decided to fire off a $3 million Patriot missile to take down a small hobby-sized drone.
No details are released in this report about where the incident took place, or who was involved, because it was a story in an army presentation. However, Iraq was mentioned as an example, and mention was made that the drones were allegedly being used to deliver weapons across a threshold.
via BBC:
A Patriot missile – usually priced at about $3m (2.5m) – was used to shoot down a small quadcopter drone, according to a US general.

This post was published at shtfplan on March 16th, 2017.