The munition is bigger than the target. What a waste.
What’s wrong with a drone strike? I guess when you’re a bomber wing 2 billion dollar hammer, everything is a nail.
Note that the body of the bomb in that pic is blue. Means that it’s inert, concrete filled rather than high explosives. Precision kinetic death on demand.
Compared to other options, that’s a pretty cheap kill. And less of a risk to the launch platform than cheaper kills (like straffing or unguided rockets) because the platform can stay close to, if not out of, the envelope of MANPADS.
For those types of boats all the Aiir Force really needs iOS a kinetic kill vehicle.A bomb casing loaded with concrete instead of explosives and a guidance kit to get the unit to hit the target.
When that kinetic kill unit hits that boat it will send it to the deep quick.