"95% of container ships are now going around the Southern Tip of Africa"

Re:"95% of container ships are now going around the Southern... by mmmBacon on Monday January 08, 2024 @03:19PM (#38917533)

While the Houthi drone itself is inexpensive, the cost to the economy of a drone hitting shipping is substantially greater than the $3M cost of the US interceptor missile.

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Re:"95% of container ships are now going around the Southern... by egorfine on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @04:41AM (#38924137)

Good.How about ten drones ($200k) and ten interceptors ($30m)? Is the cost of the economy still greater? Alright, let's up the numbers. Forty drones vs forty interceptors, $800k vs $120m. Do the numbers still work for the US? Like, would Yemen gladly pay $800k to kill an american vessel? I guess yes. Would it be economically effective to spend $120m on a protection of said vessel? Perhaps not.

So, at a certain number between one and forty drones the economy stops making sense.

This is what happens here in Ukraine as well: russian drones are cheap and readily available, while interceptors are expensive af and quite scarce.

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Re:"95% of container ships are now going around the Southern... by mmmBacon on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @04:33PM (#39019453)

According to this:

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/22b-worth-of-cargo-is-now-...

the average value of goods per container ship is ~$350M per ship not including the value of the ship itself. However I think the impact to the economy from a missile hitting a ship far exceeds the value of the goods, the ship, and the cost of any missiles used to defend those goods.

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