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Originally Posted by Vendor
Wonder what the projectile can cost, hardly peanuts,  |
At the current market price of Tugstin: 720 USD for the raw material alone for one 40 lb round.
For refining and manufacturing lets quadruple that to 1,680 USD
Price of tomahawk LACM: 569,000 USD per unit.
So for the price of one Tomahawk the Navy can buy 338 Rail gun rounds. (FWI the US Fired under 300 Tomahawks in the first gulf war).
For the Pentagon 1,680 USD
is peanuts.