Each Shahed drone costs between 20 and 50 grand to manufacture, built with off-the-shelf commercial electronics.

Shahed drones are unmanned aircraft that can carry powerful explosives as far as 2,000 km.

Shahed drones have also been used by Russia in its war against Ukraine.

If defense systems have to shoot three, four, or five Patriot interceptors to knock down one drone, the cost becomes 15, 20, or $30 million per $20,000 drone.

Iran was the first country to develop Shahed drones.