Britain Put a Cheap Rocket on Its Most Expensive Jet. The A-10 Is Laughing

BAE Systems just tested APKWS rockets on a Eurofighter Typhoon, turning a $400,000 missile problem into a $20,000 rocket solution. COOL! But here's the problem: putting a cheap weapon on a $90 million jet quietly solves one problem while exposing a much larger one: the West has no dedicated slow, cheap aircraft to hunt slow, cheap drones, because it spent twenty years retiring exactly those platforms.

Look, putting APKWS rockets on your Eurofighter is like downgrading your Lamborghini to be street legal when you have a perfectly good Subaru in the garage.

In this video I break down why the Typhoon's flight envelope is genuinely awkward for drone intercepts, what the A-10's ghost tells us about where NATO's counter-UAS architecture actually stands, and why this clever integration is a patch rather than a strategy.

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