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Cambridge Aerospace takes its cheap interceptor up a weight class

At Prague’s Future Forces exhibition the British start-up showed Starhammer, a Mach 2 interceptor aimed at cruise missiles, while Czech KBP displayed a jet drone in the Shahed mould. Neither came with a price, and price is the whole argument.

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Cambridge Aerospace made its name with Skyhammer, a jet-powered interceptor built to bring down Shahed-type drones without spending a Patriot on each one. At the Future Forces exhibition in Prague this week it showed the bigger sibling. Starhammer is a rocket-powered missile aimed at cruise missiles, a class of target where the readily available answer has usually cost millions of dollars a shot.

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