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But I suspect you cannot win this war like that, because fixing a cable is more expensive than sacrificing a vessel.

I'd love some references to back this claim up. I have no idea what it costs to fix an undersea cable, but ships can go for many millions.

It's a different class of vessel than I expect is used in these types of incidents, but I recently read an article about the Coast Guard's purchase of a $125m icebreaker[1].

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/aiviq-icebreaker-military...

I suppose you'd use __old__ vessels for this purpose. Ones you'd bring to the ship-scrapyard anyway.

Still hurts. They are not owned by the state, this is not how it works. Someone was granted to buy and operate them, and possibly promised to keep the vessels later. Even for scraping. So, still a loss.

Edited: grammar.

> estimated costs ranging from $7 to $12 million per cable https://www.perplexity.ai/page/baltic-sea-cable-sabotage-ZPH...

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