B-52 - For sale?

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

...What gets me is the cost; back in 1952 they ran about $8 million each.

My calculations put $8 million in 1952 at about $480 Million in todays dollars, so that sounds about right. Add in another $20 million for improved avionics, and I think his $500 million is about right on the mark as a pretty accurate estimate on what it would cost to build a replacement today, on assembly line dollars - assuming no new research needed to be done.

-S