Palmer Luckey: Reusable kinetic interceptors required for cost-effective counter-drone operations; current single-use missile model economically infeasible against low-cost mass-produced drones

“We cannot build multi-million dollar missiles or even hundred thousand dollar missiles where we just throw away the engine and the seeker and the computer and the airframe and everything. Every single time we shoot down one target, you will never be able to build something cheap enough to make sense going up against small, low-cost mass produced drones... We need to basically think about scaling down the fighter interceptor model to interceptors that are very, very fast, maybe turbine powered, maybe rocket powered.”