There is more to destroying a single commercial vehicle than simply the purchase price. Consider the cost of having to run that mission again if the simpler or smaller option missile misses, or the presence of multiple targets and an inability to target all of them with the simpler missile at the same time. Finally the value of the individuals in the vehicle may be worth significantly more than the vehicle. Certainly in AFG the US was happy to drop multiple munitions on a single target to guarantee a kill instead of using a lighter less costly approach.

Militaries don’t generally consider the cost of the munition against the target, it is about the effectiveness of the munition against the target. Governments consider the cost of the munition at acquisition but within a conflict munition cost pales in comparison to the overall cost of the conflict. A more pressing factor may be availability of advanced munitions but in this case ATGMs are hardly breaking the bank.

Almot all US and its allies are facing bomb shortages in All Categories even with slow tempo of war. infact Suaids are building there own factory now with South Africa.

http://www.airforcemag.com/DRArchive/Pages/2016/January%202016/January%2005%202016/Yes,-There-Is-Bomb-Shortage.aspx
Yes, There Is Bomb Shortage
​The Air Force is indeed experiencing a “shortfall” in “all categories” of munitions, due to the air campaign against ISIS over the last 15 months, but so far is “managing” its global stockpiles such that there’s no impact on operations yet, an Air Force spokeswoman told Air Force Magazine Monday. However, reloading will take up to four years, she said. Expanding on comments from USAF Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh in early December that USAF is expending munitions “faster than we can replenish them,” the spokeswoman said that while USAF can “sustain” anti-ISIS operations for now,

An article on af.mil website reads in part…

To me, “tomorrow’s high end threat environment” and “deliver airstrikes on any location in the world” means B-2.1 can survive a future IADS and still hit its targets. But remember, air combat is a team sport. There are no lone eagles.

Air Force reveals B-21 long range strike bomber

USAF stopped buying B-2 to F-22 to F-15 in less than 20 years after first flight. Those time airdefence and missile technology was not even progressing so fast .

But that’s impossible, the Il-76 has a perfect cargo hold cross section and the An-70 was a stupid idea :dev2:

An-70 is shorter range and slow. Helicopter can fly by themselves with multiple stops. or by ships. Not even twin engine cargo like Kc-390 use unreliable prop. C130 fly hour cost is as much as C17.

from the looks. Mi-28 seems to me better armoured protected. i will use it in close combat environment like in city. while Ka-50 more sutiable for desert and mountain for hitting transport or antiship/anti air against UAVs. every one has now UAV.

Yes but the true long-range sea-based analogue to the S-400 will only be fielded by a couple of navies (US, Japan, Australia) with the SPY-1D(V) [GaN based AMDR in the AB Flight III ships] and SM-3+SM-6 combination.

Where you get idea there is naval equal to S400 by these navies?

new internet testing.

http://tass.ru/en/defense/867990
Russian servicemen test high-speed military Internet in Syria operation

This Syria operation gave confidence about tempo and reliability of systems.
http://www.newsweek.com/russian-parliament-speaker-compares-baltics-trained-dogs-444683

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_%28missile%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIS-T

Just to name a few “weopons” for which Italian firms are partners.

I am not referring to the weopons that are rarely used. Italy still simply cant produce competitive missiles and guided bombs in huge quantities that are required for round the clock operations in Middleast.

how many Italian weopons are in that T129?

http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/policy-budget/policy/2015/11/08/turkish-officials-wonder-if-and-when-us-ok-weapons-exports/75112260/
The most recent example of how politics can interfere with Turkey’s weapons procurements was a $70 million sale of Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) kits to Turkey, cleared by the State Department on Oct. 29. That clearance, which was on hold for more than 570 days, paves the way for Turkey to replenish its weapon stocks in its ongoing strikes against the PKK.
A Turkish defense official admitted that Turkey’s stocks of US-made smart ammunition has visibly diminished after serial airstrikes against Kurdish militant strongholds in northern Iraq since July 20, when the Kurds ended a 2013 cease-fire