alt Hacker NewsFixed wing? Using Starlink perhaps? $10k or so, maybe less.
Taking out a billion dollar asset with a couple million dollars worth of drones and a few (more expensive) anti ship missles? Priceless.
Fixed wing? Using Starlink perhaps? $10k or so, maybe less.
Taking out a billion dollar asset with a couple million dollars worth of drones and a few (more expensive) anti ship missles? Priceless.
A Ukrainian high speed Shahed interceptor costs that much and has a very short range.
You're off by at least an order of magnitude. The camera mount you'd have to put on such a drone would cost about that much, probably more.
You're also vastly underestimating just how big the ocean actually is.
And finding the aircraft carrier is not the penultimate step to destroying it (a "few" anti shipping missiles aren't getting through those defenses).