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🚨A $20,000 drone just changed the price of war forever. Iran's Shahed costs $20,000 to build. The missile fired to stop it costs $2 million. Iran fired 2,000 in the first week alone. You do the math. The Pentagon already did. This is the new battlefield equation: any nation, any proxy, any militia with a credit card and a supply chain can now bleed a superpower slowly and expensively, with no clean counter available. The Shahed already destroyed Ukraine's infrastructure, paralyzed Red Sea shipping through the Houthis, and is now hitting U.S. bases across 12 countries simultaneously. One drone evaded every layer of American air defense and killed six U.S. service members in Kuwait. The U.S. response? They captured a Shahed, reverse-engineered it, slapped "Made in America" on it, and fired it back at Iran. That's how good the original design is. The deeper story: Ukraine spent four years getting hit by these things and became the world's leading authority on stopping them. The Trump administration turned down their expertise eight months before this war started. After the Kuwait strike, they called Kyiv back. The $14,000 American counter-drone is now killing the $20,000 Iranian drone. The cost exchange finally flipped. Iranian attacks are down 95%. But the technology keeps getting cheaper. The autonomy keeps increasing. One defense CEO told Axios we're entering "phase zero of Terminator." He's not wrong. He's just early. Source: Axios Video: Anduril