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The unit cost goes down with scale. A Honda Civic would be extremely expensive if they only made 2000 of them. That doesn't mean it's too flashy for the job, it just means they haven't divided the development cost over enough units.

It makes sense to develop new military tech continuously, but only scale out production when needed.

These drones are for accompanying new fighter planes. They aren't super expensive ground attack drones, which we already have in cruise missiles, but really cheap fighters. Peer conflicts is the only reason to have them.

The drones mentioned in the article is not the consumer drone (like DJI drones) used in Ukraine.