minus-squarenotagoodboye@lemmy.todaytoWorld News@lemmy.world•Russia Loses Last Black Sea Missile ShiplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up87arrow-down3·2 months agoThis is a whole paradigm shift, and it’s not new. So you have a billion dollar aircraft carrier. How many million dollar missiles can you shoot at it before it sinks? Generally, it’s not a thousand. Same deal all down the line. A tank is fantastically more expensive than an antitank rocket. Just the way the world works. You can iterate and improve a small munition way faster than a huge ship. linkfedilink
This is a whole paradigm shift, and it’s not new.
So you have a billion dollar aircraft carrier. How many million dollar missiles can you shoot at it before it sinks? Generally, it’s not a thousand.
Same deal all down the line. A tank is fantastically more expensive than an antitank rocket.
Just the way the world works. You can iterate and improve a small munition way faster than a huge ship.