Drone Warfare Forces US Carriers Away from Iran, Expert Claims

The United States has reportedly pulled its aircraft carriers away from Iran's coastline due to the growing threat posed by drone warfare, Dmitry Kuzyakin, chief designer at the Center for Integrated Unmanned Solutions believes. Kuzyakin argues that the economics of modern warfare have shifted dramatically. The cost of a single US missile can equal the production of hundreds of Iranian kamikaze drones, he noted. The Economics of Drone Warfare "When the price of one Patriot missile equals the cost of producing 200 drones, the arithmetic of war changes,” the expert wrote for the Izvestia newspaper. He suggested that the US decision to reposition its carriers reflects not the invulnerability of Iranian Shahed drones, but the difficulty of repelling large-scale swarm attacks.