Just think about flying a unarmed UAV, maintainance cost of UAV, its cost of fuel etc...
After detecting terrorists:
Flying an F16, its maintainance cost, cost of fuel, dropping 2 mk82 bombs...
MAM-L changes this into detecting terrorists and shooting them.
Cost of MAM-L and cost of F16 events chain have incredible diffirance. Forget the bombs of F16, forget the abnormal amount of fuel F16 burns, just maintainance cost of F16 is more than MAM-L.
(cost of maintainance includes depreciation value of each flight)
After detecting terrorists:
Flying an F16, its maintainance cost, cost of fuel, dropping 2 mk82 bombs...
MAM-L changes this into detecting terrorists and shooting them.
Cost of MAM-L and cost of F16 events chain have incredible diffirance. Forget the bombs of F16, forget the abnormal amount of fuel F16 burns, just maintainance cost of F16 is more than MAM-L.
(cost of maintainance includes depreciation value of each flight)