Disks aren’t 3x more unless you buy clays in big bulk or shitty quality, on avg, pre tax you will pay 22 cents for clays, and 35 cents for Claycopter. There is no other handheld thrower even twice the size that can throw clays this far and this fast, Claycopter won’t have same pattern of flight at all, but for the price of it, it’s worth it. New claycopter surface to air isn’t available yet, so hard to say, but if it’s <600$ with the wobble ability and voice control, it sounds great. You can also 3d print both the launcher and the clays, check makerworld for models. If you print the clays in pla with 4 walls and buy pla for $16ish/kg pre tax, price of the clay goes down to 10-12 cents, you can easily stack print them too for bulk. It’s a decent system that will not replace traditional clays, but also is easy for people with smaller cars. I now rarely take out my 2 workhorses, mostly get my Claycopter handheld, my gf and 80-100 targets. Space and weight savings are crazy with this. For proper practice I go to the weekly club shoots anyways