At a million credits a pop, there is some hesitation to pull the trigger, particularly in the civilian sector.

Eh.  If you get the unit price down far enough, users will fire them like popcorn, even for training, and particularly for testing anti-missile defenses.

Plus, you can carry more of them for a given mass.  

One of the cooler defense projects recently has been to mount laser guidance systems on the old HYDRA-70 unguided dumb air-to-ground missiles.  

7 cheap ones is generally better than 1 expensive one, particularly if you're not going up against the ships that expensive one was designed to kill.

  

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