Navy Sets World Record With Incredible, Sci-Fi Weapon

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

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.

I can imagine That,