[El Gato]

Whereas a $10,000 missile will put any lessor ship on the bottom of the sea in minutes. Just ask the British about the HMS Sheffield during the Falkland Islands’ war.

I'm pretty sure an Exocet would cost a bit more than $10K. I don't think you can get a GPS guidance package for a dumb iron bomb for that much.

[RachelFaith]

You are correct. They cost $75,000 each in 1980’s dollars and sell today for $250,000. I knew they were Cheap, but missed that mark. Still. You cannot build any kind of destroyer battelship or carrier for a micro fraction of the cost of a cheap missile. And the Exocet was first designed in 1967. I don’t think they had GPS in the 70s, which were the versions used by Argentina in the Falklands war.