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Various sources are reporting a $16M unit cost for this bomb (excluding R&D costs). That's more than half the unit cost of the C-130 aircraft that delivers it.
by matthewmcg 10y ago
Various sources are reporting a $16M unit cost for this bomb (excluding R&D costs). That's more than half the unit cost of the C-130 aircraft that delivers it.
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- pacificmint 10y agoIt's also about 600 times as much as the cost for a Daisy Cutter, which it sorta replaces. (According to [1] those cost $27,000) [1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/nov/07/afghanistan.terrorism6 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/nov/07/afghanistan.te...