"Damo" wrote:

:
:" :If they can be mass-produced for $10,000 each, then a $1 bn
: rocurement -- and the sort of countries we're talking about
: :typically sign bigger weapons contracts than that -- would buy
: :100,000 missiles.
:
: I think you need to go look at this again. Hell, why not assume they
: cost $1 each and can be made by kindergardeners?
:
:A civilian is making a cruise missile in his garage in New Zealand for less
:then 5000 dollars.

I'll believe it when he gets it done, it has a usable warhead
fraction, and it works after being bounced around on roads (and off)
in the back of a truck for six months. And if it passes that, then
we'll talk about flight profiles, RCS, accuracy under GPS-jammed
conditions, etc.

Get back to me.

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"Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute."
-- Charles Pinckney