120 Tomahawk missiles at about $1,000,000 each

[DainBramaged]

lot of school lunches there....lot of a lot of stuff there, plus he cost of supporting the fleet, the jets, fuel, wow, where did we find the money for this little excursion....

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Sunk costs?

The god damn shit should never have been built in the first place.

Those fucking things were designed to launch nukes into the Soviet Union, later on they re=fitted the bastards to kill people in the middle east at a safe distance.

[babylonsister]

2. A link? I imagine you aren't far off. :( nt

[DainBramaged]

12. The 1.5-tonne missile, which cost between $US600,000 and $US1.2 million each, can carry a 450-kilogr

http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/world/tomahawk-cruise-missiles-used-for-libya-assaultq/story-e6frfkui-1226024934986

[silver10]

13. depends on type and year produced

Tactical Tomahawk

IOC: 2004
Production: 4,805
Unitary Cost: USD$1.2 million
Total Cost: USD$7.0 billion

http://www.deagel.com/Land-Attack-Cruise-Missiles/Tactical-Tomahawk_a001146005.aspx

[Joe the Revelator]

3. They cost 500k each.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Phew. That's lots better than a million each.

[neverforget]

6. Twice the war for half the price

[Poll_Blind]

8. Yeah, at a million a piece I balk. At $500k a piece, I'm thinking we should drop some on Vanatu...

...just because.

PB

[joshcryer]

18. Haha

[DainBramaged]

28. I see you have your scrubbing bubbles on

Sure makes you look all expert like.....not

[Lasher]

17. Average production cost was $569,000 apiece in 1999.

But the cost seems to have gone down a little since then.

The average cost of a Tomahawk missile is close to $1.5 million. But this takes into account the initial research and development costs. As a pure production cost it costs less that $500,000.

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

[DainBramaged]

30. Let's buy more !!!!SERIES!!11!!!11 cheap at half the price

That wasn't the point of the thread. But points are hard to vome by lately.

[aquart]

5. Yup. We're gonna need more.

[Swede]

7. Stopping Benghazi from being razed: Priceless.

nt

[DainBramaged]

31. Stopping America from being the mop in a dirty world, less costly than your war

[highplainsdem]

9. The F-35 will cost us a TRILLION dollars. Link to the topic about that:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x688317

[midnight]

10. I wonder how much that adds to the deficit?

[somone]

11. A small down payment for freedom

and nation-building or whatever

[silver10]

15. Or a bunch of civilian deaths or whatever

[Tx4obama]

14. The missles were already paid for in past budgets/funding

And as far as the fleet goes they'd be getting paid no matter where they are, and the jets would be doing practice fights etc.
I don't see where there is any extra money going to be spent that hasn't already been allocated.
Until the military budget is actually 'cut' everyone will continue paying out the nose for lot of stuff that is normally never even used.

[silver10]

16. won't those missiles now need to be replaced?

or were they just sitting around as "extras?"

[Tx4obama]

19. I don't know.

I thought people in the past said that we have missiles, equipment, etc. in warehouses that would never be used because the military keeps buying and buying just to keep the corporations that make them happy & rich.
Maybe with someone with statistics could give us a clue.

As far as replacing them, I guess that depends on how many we have stockpiled already - I betcha it's a few thousand times more than we'd ever need or ever use.

[joshcryer]

21. We do, there's the famous quote that bombing people actually is profitable because...

...they just sit somewhere and go past their expiration date and are wasted. Trying to think of who said it.

[joshcryer]

20. Their replacements are already bought and paid for.

Likely they have an entire years worth of replacements paid for, for a continual bombardment of Africa (this is coming out of the African aspect of our military, all of those ships were already there doing peace time operations).

[silver10]

22. nice

wouldn't want ANY bombs to go beyond their expiration date without killin someone. Can't waste good ordnance, not in this economy.

[joshcryer]

23. Yep, if anything they're happy now that they're liquid. As fucked up as that sounds.

"We used 'em before they expired!"

[Lasher]

24. Don't they call up the National Guard and Reserves to backfill for members of our armed forces?

If we have extra soldiers for something like this, why do we have our National Guard on active duty in Iraq and Afghanistan right now?

[Tx4obama]

26. Well the navy guys on the three submarines that the USA has sent to Libya ....

I believe weren't in Iraq or Afghanistan.
I haven't heard how many fighter jet pilots are heading to Libya.
Anyone heard how many Americans are going to be involved in the Libyan mission all together?

[kelly1mm]

25. WOW! So I guess the wars in Afganistan and Iraq were/are free too.

Or maybe we can call it a stimulus plan (have to restock those missles you know). Think of all the jobs that would create! Or we could just be honest and say that wars started by Presidents with (D) behind their name are OK.

[DainBramaged]

29. So is that a happy thought for you, that someone else paid for the deaths and not you?

Phew, that's a relief.....

[tinrobot]

27. That would totally pay for NPR