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Does anyone know why this will cost "over USD$3 Billion to restore"? The entire aircraft costs approximately $300 million, so I would have expected a number les
by KMnO4 5y ago
Does anyone know why this will cost "over USD$3 Billion to restore"? The entire aircraft costs approximately $300 million, so I would have expected a number less than or equal to that.
Even the B-2 Spirit bomber, most likely the most expensive aircraft only costs $2.1 billion.
- chunkyks 5y agoAll the tooling, manufacturing, everything for the b2 is gone. They made twenty something, then converted the factories to other things. So whatever the sticker associated with one b2 is, the replacement cost is much higher because you have to include redevelopment, new tooling, everything.
- sheepybloke 5y agoExactly. Since the Antonov was built before the Soviet Union fell, I wouldn't be surprised if none of that exists for this plane as well, and will take a lot of resources to build it back up.
- esaym 5y agoBecause it looks pretty screwed up: https://i.imgur.com/idYr7br.png https://i.imgur.com/idYr7br.png
- chaoticmass 5y agoI can't read the article right now-- are they seriously talking about restoring, as in repairing it? I'd think it would be a total loss and not possible to 'restore'.