At around $1,000 a shot, it is meant to make shooting down Russian drones vastly cheaper. AdvertisementAdvertisementAn Australian defense company has developed a new weapon dubbed the "drone killer" that could help Ukraine face Russia's suicide drone barrages at a low cost. The weapon can be mounted on a truck and operated with a joystick and a screen, Australia's ABC News reported. The US-supplied NASAM missile system, sent to Ukraine last winter, costs around $500,000 to fire. According to ABC, the cost of shooting down a drone with it is estimated to be between $100 and $1,000.

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Persons: —, Charlotte Capper, Jake Epstein, That's, Australia Vasyl Myroshnychenko Organizations: Service, Optic Systems, ABC News, ABC, EOS, Australian Defense Magazine Locations: Australian, Ukraine, Russia, Australia