Here Is What Each Of The Pentagon's Air-Launched Missiles And Bombs Actually Cost

[Miloch]

Interesting read with pics and prices...too long to post here but click this to
read:

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/32277/here-is-what-each-of-the-pentagons-air-launched-missiles-and-bombs-actually-cost

....war is not cheap!


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[Bob (not my real pseudonym)[_2_]]

On 18 Feb 2020 21:30:01 -0800, Miloch >
wrote:

>Interesting read with pics and prices...too long to post here but click this to
>read:
>
>https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/32277/here-is-what-each-of-the-pentagons-air-launched-missiles-and-bombs-actually-cost
>
>...war is not cheap!

Yeah, but ya get free shipping with orders over $10 million!

[Miloch]

In article >, not my real pseudonym
says...
>
>On 18 Feb 2020 21:30:01 -0800, Miloch >
>wrote:
>
>>Interesting read with pics and prices...too long to post here but click this to
>>read:
>>
>>https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/32277/here-is-what-each-of-the-pentagons-air-launched-missiles-and-bombs-actually-cost
>>
>>...war is not cheap!
>
>Yeah, but ya get free shipping with orders over $10 million!

If I need one, I'll do what a lot of savvy buyers are doing....ordering it from
Amazon.com and having it FedExed to my doorstep.



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[Miloch]

In article >, DAN says...
>
>Miloch wrote:
>
>>Interesting read with pics and prices...too long to post here but click this to
>>read:
>
>>https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/32277/here-is-what-each-of-the-pentagons-air-launched-missiles-and-bombs-actually-cost
>>...war is not cheap!
>
>The real question is which proportion of the cost is justified by genuine
>manufacturing costs, and which is due to broken procurement processes, to
>administrative ineptness, and of course to good ol' corporate greed.
>
>The answer would certainly hurt.

The biggest culprits are members of Congress who will fight tooth and nail to
prevent an existing weapons system being manufactured in their state/district
from being shut down due to obsolescence as it means loss of jobs and federal
funds being pumped in.

A favorite method of getting a weapons system approved by Congress was to make
sure all/most of the parts were made in as many states as possible.



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[Mitchell Holman[_9_]]

Miloch > wrote in
:

> In article >, DAN says...
>>
>>Miloch wrote:
>>
>>>Interesting read with pics and prices...too long to post here but
>>>click this to read:
>>
>>>https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/32277/here-is-what-each-of-the-p
>>>entagons-air-launched-missiles-and-bombs-actually-cost ...war is not
>>>cheap!
>>
>>The real question is which proportion of the cost is justified by
>>genuine manufacturing costs, and which is due to broken procurement
>>processes, to administrative ineptness, and of course to good ol'
>>corporate greed.
>>
>>The answer would certainly hurt.
>
> The biggest culprits are members of Congress who will fight tooth and
> nail to prevent an existing weapons system being manufactured in
> their state/district from being shut down due to obsolescence as it
> means loss of jobs and federal funds being pumped in.
>
> A favorite method of getting a weapons system approved by Congress was
> to make sure all/most of the parts were made in as many states as
> possible.
>


Some of us remember when Sec of Defense
was a big opponent of the V-22 program during
the Bush Sr administration. Once he became
VP under Bush Jr he suddenly was it's biggest
supporter. Even now the military is trying to
find a mission for it......