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

Miloch wrote in
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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-zon...-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......