dla said:

“My guess is that less than $100 of materials is required to destroy a $250K 100mph UAV.”

dla maybe thinking of a different UAV. $250K seemed too cheap for a MQ-1 Predator. I just did a quick look at Wikipedia and found:

“Cost for an early production Predator was about $3.2 million USD.”

An AGM-114K Hellfire II costs about $65,000.

dla also said:

“But by holing up in the most backwards of nations, they find themselves at the mercy of video-game players. They don’t need something like a Stinger, which can take down a jet. They need something only slightly more advanced than a hobby rocket to take down a UAV.”

Actually, I think it requires somthing like a Stinger to take down an MQ-1 Predator. There’s no way something powered with an Estes rocket is going to take down a Predator.

The good news is: We’re killing bad guys with Hellfire armed Predators.

The bad news is: It’s expensive.

It’s unfortunate that we couldn’t simply bribe the bad guy with $65,000 to give up Islamic facism and live out his life as a moral human being. Unfortunately because he’s an Islamic fascist, he’d simply spend the $65k on Chinese made Ak-47s, RPGs and suicide vests. The only real solution is to track him down and kill him.