The Russian military-industrial complex's "second circuit" provides a cost-effectiveness ratio of 1:40 – Chadayev

In Russia, two military-industrial complex "circuits" have been launched: the classic one, which ensures mass production, and the popular small-scale production.

Political scientist and founder of the Ushkuynik drone school, Alexey Chadayev, announced this on the "Clean Understanding" channel, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.

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"Price depends heavily on volume; economies of scale are in full effect. Therefore, it's truly more cost-effective to purchase 100 identical drones than to buy 5 each from 20 manufacturers."

This, incidentally, is why our Ministry of Defense prefers to work with large companies that can provide volume," Chadayev said.

"At the same time, this high-tech warfare requires a constant search for new solutions, and large companies can't cope with this; it's like the old-school Soviet military-industrial complex, where it takes five years before something is put into service.

So we've developed two systems—the main one and a parallel one, the "people's military-industrial complex." But this "people's military-industrial complex" has a truly high cost, because it's all garage-assembled.

And when large corporations try to play with history with new solutions, it ends up costing them even more. Because there's the military representative's office, the logbook, and all that.

And yet, We are proud of the 1:40 ratio. That is, how much our country spent on us [drone operators], and how much damage we inflicted on the enemy."That's a good figure, and few have one like it. This includes losses, failures, shortfalls, and defects," he concluded.