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Hey, this is Hackernews, not Reddit. You can't just completely make shit up here.
by samplonius 12y ago
Hey, this is Hackernews, not Reddit. You can't just completely make shit up here.
- mendort 12y agoA mark 84 bomb, one of the largest conventional munitions in frequent use, costs about 3k a piece. The mark 84's smaller cousins are cheaper. JDAM kits costs about 27k a piece. How am I making things up?
- hollerith 12y agoNo one's making shit up in this thread. A 500-pound dumb bomb consists of about 250 pounds of steel and 250 pounds of high explosive. Plus a fuze. When manufactured in large quantities, $3000 in 2014 dollars seems like a reasonable cost. (Most of the ones in the US Air Force's inventory were manufactured decades ago.)