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Sweden’s Tridon Mk2 Shoots 40mm Programmable Rounds at $27 Each — Patriot Costs $4 Million
Why Russia’s “Shahed” swarm is economically bankrupting the Patriot, and how Sweden’s “$27-bullet” is the mathematical and physical “silver-bullet” that wins the “drone-war.”
Executive Summary: The “$27 Kill” and the “$4 Million Failure”
This article shows forensic evidence of a strategic-economic disaster happening in the skies over Ukraine: NATO’s top air defense system is going bankrupt at an 80:1 cost-exchange disadvantage. Ukraine is spending $4 million on Patriot PAC-3 MSE missiles to defend itself against Russia’s Shahed-136 drones, which cost about $50,000 each and are made at a rate of more than 5,500 per month. Each successful interception is an economic defeat that can’t be sustained.
There is a solution. Not American. It’s from Sweden.
The BAE Systems/Saab Tridon Mk2, which costs $27 per round for Bofors 40mm 3P (Pre-fragmented, Programmable, Proximity-fuzed) ammunition, has a cost-per-kill ratio of about 1:185 against the Shahed threat. This is the exact opposite of the Patriot’s losing equation. This study shows, using solid physics and industrial…
