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How much does a modern ICBM cost? Inc. overhead, initial purchase price, long-term readiness?
warishumannature
9/29/2004 7:06:37 AM
I'm pretty sure this stuff isn't secret. Just asking for a ball-park figure in US Dollars. You can break it down in terms of basing, if you want. (Silo, road-mobile, rail-mobile, warehoused, underground storage etc.)
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french stratege
RE:How much does a modern ICBM cost? Inc. overhead, initial purchase price, long-term readiness?
10/2/2004 12:40:31 PM
5 billion $ for R&D cost without nukes.Multiply by three with basic research and nukes R&D for a country with modern high level diversified civilian industry. Then a 3 nuclear warhead ICBM would cost 50 m$ to procure for a twenty year service life plus price of a silo or mobile lauching ramp (add 15 m$ at least) plus 3 m$ a year minimum to maintain and closely to a minimum 4 adding salaries of soldiers to maintain it. In twenty years for a 60 ICBM force it would be 1,2 billion $ a year.This is a little more to the less than 1 billion $ supposed Israelis spending for a 200 nukes and IRBM. This is based on French and US prices. French spend 2,6 to 3 billion $ a year today after reduction of their nuclear aresenal to procure a 4SSBN and 48 SLBM with 288 warheads plus a hundred air launch supersonic counter force 300 kt missiles.
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Yimmy
RE:How much does a modern ICBM cost? Inc. overhead, initial purchase price, long-term readiness?
10/2/2004 12:48:45 PM
You are both missing the point. How much they cost is not what matters, what matters is how good you are at convincing your bank manager that you need one!!
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