matt on Nostr: This is a good point. Something tells me that certain interests don't want a $100 ...

This is a good point. Something tells me that certain interests don't want a $100 solution. We could probably down them for even less than that if the right people weren't making so much money on those missiles.

Frankly, I'd just turn them all to dust and be done with it. But we like to be as inefficient, ineffective, and expensive as we can be when it comes to war. It turns out that's where the money is.

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So the Houthis fire a lot of drones at ships in the Red Sea. The Americans and Brits shoot down virtually every single one of them. I thought obviously the Houthis aren't very capable, and America and the UK are very capable, and the Houthis probably need to come up with another tactic.

But then I learned that Houthi drones cost $2,000 while the American missiles that shoot them down cost $2,100,000. So even when the drones don't hit anything, the Houthis achieve something of great worth: wasting an expensive American missile.