r/CredibleDefense • u/CptBartender • 12h ago

Contemporary SARH missiles

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Are SARH A2A missiles still actively developed?

A while ago, a russian drone entered polish airspace, and polish F-16 used an AIM-120 to intercept it. Laypeople immediately started talking about cost effectiveness of using a n at least $0.5M+ missile (assuming it was one of the older variants) to take out drones that cost next to nothing in comparison.

ARH missiles like the AIM-120 are 'better' than SARH missiles in that they are harder to detect and thus more useful against enemy fighters, however the cheap, mass-produced drones don't evade, deploy countermeasures or even have any kind of on-board RWR systems, so it seems to me that it's just an overkill... We could replace the radar with something much cheaper and lighter even within the same missile and use that for drone interception missions, no?

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r/CredibleDefense • u/RUSIOfficial • 8h ago

Defence Spending: Challenges for the Budget and Beyond

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Reaching 3% of GDP on defence by 2030–31 would need around £11 billion more in that year than keeping spending at 2.7%, and the Chancellor, John Healey, must now decide whether to commit to it. In a new RUSI Commentary, Bee Boileau and Max Warner argue that funding it would mean cutting spending elsewhere, raising taxes or borrowing more, and that all three look challenging. They conclude that “beyond this Budget, higher defence spending will continue to reshape the British state.”

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Active Conflicts & News Megathread October 26, 2026

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