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What are the ingredients to a missile? 1 fashioned cylinder, 4 winglets, 1 Raspberry Pi, 1 large glob of explosives, 1 solid fuel propellant? Obviously I'm bei
by paulnpace 2y ago
What are the ingredients to a missile? 1 fashioned cylinder, 4 winglets, 1 Raspberry Pi, 1 large glob of explosives, 1 solid fuel propellant?
Obviously I'm being facetious, but we're not talking about some crazy hi-tech gizmos or even genuinely ground-breaking technology, and that price does get a Tesla or two, so really $100,000 isn't cheap. Plus we are not discussing U.S. DoD contractor prices which "everyone knows" have no known correlation to reality.
- compsciphd 2y agohttp://nations-militaryequipmentlist.weebly.com/ballistic-missiles.html http://nations-militaryequipmentlist.weebly.com/ballistic-mi... take it for what you will, but lists the cheapest iranian long range ballistic missile at $3mil (and no longer in production) this seems to have similar data https://www.trtworld.com/middle-east/neither-israel-nor-iran-likely-able-to-sustain-long-drawn-war-say-experts-17811706 https://www.trtworld.com/middle-east/neither-israel-nor-iran... > "The (Iranian) drones are not costly, around $50,000 (and) $250,000 for each cruise missile and from $1 to 10 million for a ballistic missile, depending on the model," he says.
- dredmorbius 2y agoHamas's Qassam rockets are basically steel pipe, fins, nozzle, sugar + fertiliser solid fuel, and warhead of various materials: TNT, ammonium nitrate, possibly a grenade. No guidance. These are basically aerial mines and serve as area-denial weapons. Of the many thousands of Qassam rockets launched, they've inflicted 23 deaths (22 Israeli citizens, one Thai national), per Wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qassam_rocket https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qassam_rocket>