Ground crew members make the final checks to the X-51A Waverider scramjet-powered hypersonic flight demonstrator, which is affixed to an Edwards Air Force Base B-52H Stratofortress. (Photo by Bob Ferguson/Boeing)
Bloomberg: Hypersonic Sticker Shock: U.S. Weapons May Run $106 Million Each
(Bloomberg) -- Hypersonic weapons that can fly five times the speed of sound will add $21.5 billion to the Navy’s budget and $7 billion to the Army’s in coming years, according to an estimate compiled by the Pentagon’s independent cost assessment office.
It’s the first authoritative evaluation of how much the services may spend to develop and build the agile and speedy new missiles that can fly low and evade radar and missile defenses. Based on internal Defense Department estimates on the number of weapons planned, that amounts to about $106 million per missile for the Army and $89.6 million for the Navy.
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WNU Editor: These numbers are jaw-dropping.
5 comments:
The pentagon is truly out of their collective minds 106 million a piece this is just the estimate which means it will come in some where closer to 300 million. Please explain to me the purpose, ballistic missiles were pushed as invulnerable to modern defenses they are also up there in velocity. The rumor is that Russia and China are fielding these missiles but are unsure of there role in combat. They will require so much fuel that the warhead will be minimal. Are these to be weapons of mass destruction, planners are saying they are conventional. What we need to do is make a super catapult and load it with pallets of 106 million dollars. That much money would be dense enough to go through any enemy bunker. We would be safe in the knowledge that we are printing the finest weapons out there. This spending spiral is real and it will get ugly. Took some friends to Popeyes chicken the other night and they had signs everywhere that their prices were increasing faster than they could print new menus. The chicken sandwich did not go up just ten cents it was a two dollar increase the manager was hearing about it. The local police had to be called out, winter will only make things worse.
First maybe they can get the goddamn things working. Then have those responsible for these prices executed. Just wishful thinking on the second part.
I suggest the largest printer in the world and a thousand or so Georgia pulp wood pine acres for the Federal Reserve to print more "money" to pay for this thing.
Not just a hypersonic, a super duper hypersonic with all the bells and whistles, and a price tag to match. Sounds like a Pentagon-style wet dream.
The Pentagon will need to urgently equip with superduper rapid lighting light bulbs to track the superduper high velocity hypersonic V2s in real time on the Big Board in the War Room. What good will these missiles be against enemy tanks & infantry? Keep ducking 🙉
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