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Bigmack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-19-11 06:37 PM
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We've been selling planes to...
everyfuckingbody. Isn't there anybody else to do the bombing in Lybia?

112 Tomahawks as far as I can tell..around half a million bucks a pop.

$56 million.... plus the per-hour cost of running the US ships that launched them.

We gotta cut $56 million more from those damned entitlements.
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dkofos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-19-11 06:39 PM
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1. @ $590,000 a pop it's more like $66 million
Edited on Sat Mar-19-11 06:39 PM by dkofos
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WHEN CRABS ROAR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-19-11 06:45 PM
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2. Who makes the Tomahawks? Whats the profit?
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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-19-11 06:54 PM
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3. During Dubya's reign, we loaned Poland $3-4billion. They used it to buy F-16s
A whole shithouse full of 'em, something like 40 of 'em.

I'm betting the loan was excused in exchange for Poland's participation in the Iraq invasion.

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PDittie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-19-11 08:29 PM
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4. Wikipedia says $569K
for FY 99.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BGM-109_Tomahawk

Various companies have made them; began w/ General Dynamics and now Raytheon.

This site claims $1.5 incl. R&D expenses; they have been tweaked and modified many times.

http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/11-10-2004-61475.asp

Whatever amount it actually is, it's a lot of teacher salaries.
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