They actually cost $25k apiece. Cheapest Soviet era SAM costs ~$500,000. Any Western counterpart to them costs $1m and above.
Things are how they are now, you can overwhelm your foe entirely by raining cheap Iranian drones on them. And getting your enemy destroy them with SAMs looks much more devastating to your enemy than you actually hitting your targets...
They actually cost $25k apiece. Cheapest Soviet era SAM costs ~$500,000. Any Western counterpart to them costs $1m and above.
Things are how they are now, you can overwhelm your foe entirely by raining cheap Iranian drones on them. And getting your enemy destroy them with SAMs looks much more devastating to your enemy than you actually hitting your targets...