[Goose]

The alternative to not taking it out is that it can cause more than a million dollars of damage, so you use the missile.



BC

Agree, and that can be true if the actual dollar cost that the drone causes isn't more than a million dollars in immediate monetary damage. First, you can't really know what the drone's target is. The dollar cost of not shooting is unknown. It could be zero, but it also could be "a lot". Second, destroying a transformer may be "only" a 100K problem, but if you can't get the transformer for months, the cost to peoples lives may be far greater. It makes sense to do it, but Ukraine and the West need a better answer.

[Goose]

The alternative to not taking it out is that it can cause more than a million dollars of damage, so you use the missile.



BC

Agree, and that can be true if the actual dollar cost that the drone causes isn't more than a million dollars in immediate monetary damage. First, you can't really know what the drone's target is. The dollar cost of not shooting is unknown. It could be zero, but it also could be "a lot". Second, destroying a transformer may be "only" a 100K problem, but if you can't get the transformer for months, the cost to peoples lives may be far greater. It makes sense to do it, but Ukraine and the West need a better answer.