Loitering munition seekers cost $15K each but are destroyed on impact, making every shot expensive

The electro-optical/infrared seeker assembly on a precision loitering munition costs $10-20K -- a miniaturized camera, processing board, and target tracking algorithm packed into a 50g module. This seeker is destroyed on impact along with the $30-50K airframe. Traditional missiles justify expensive seekers because they hit high-value targets (aircraft, ships). A loitering munition destroying a $2,000 pickup truck with a $15K seeker is economically inverted. This persists because seeker miniaturization requires precision optics and custom ASICs that have high per-unit costs at low production volumes, and no commercially available camera module provides the military-grade stabilization and tracking needed for terminal guidance.