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>It lets you fire a warning shot for less than half a million dollars.
Missiles don't need to be that expensive. The high price of missiles today is the result of bilateral monopoly pricing. We have a single buyer (the government and to a lesser extent the governments that are permitted to buy) and a single seller because of long term contracts. Prototype or pre-production prices get locked in for 20 years in a market that is already highly distorted by the limited number of participants. When the firms do improve their production methods to bring the cost down they never pass on the savings to the tax payers. On top of that most firms are still using technology that is 10 generations behind current consumer electronics because someone demanded the chips be hardened against EMPs instead of using cheap shields or someone demanded a custom controller instead of grabbing an Arduino off the shelf.

It is possible to build a cruise missile with the same payload as a 5" shell and a range over 200km and a CEP less than 2m for less than $10k. It would be subsonic, but it would work.

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