Shahed 136 drone Great Prophet 17 drill

While Russia is churning out thousands of cheap attack drones every month, the United States seems to be treading water. But there is no time to wait. These cheap suicide drones, known as Shaheed-136, are no technical marvel – but that is precisely their advantage. They work because they are cheap, easy to manufacture, and you can have so many of them that defenses simply cannot shoot them all down.