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I ain't no Senator's son (cdn.social.linux.pizza)
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[–] 7 points 8 months ago (7 children)

care to name the weapon system and it's actual cost for munitions and rearmament? Or is this a "trust me bro" moment?

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

    I could go search for them, or you could notice that the price tag is different for each of the 3 torpedo launches shown despite being the same type of torpedo. 🤡

    Anyway, the CIWS systems like the phalanx (minigun looking shit) cost around $3,500 per second, not above $50k a second like the video would suggest.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

    Now can you facture in the person firing it, the ship it's firing from, the cost to operate that ship, the radar that's used to target what it's hitting, and the R&D costs of that weapon alone?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (4 children)

    How? How do you assign how much of the R&D should be counted for the one missile fire or burst from a Phalanx? How much of the ship operation cost? The few seconds on the video? When I have no context of when and where these firings happened?

    And much more importantly, what for? How would pricing random weapons firing on a random video help anyone with anything?

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    For example, F35 cost like $2 trillion when all costs are considered, but only like $100mil each. Slight difference, right? And to the second part, that's the whole point of the thread, how much money America would save if it wasn't for these weapons.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    If the thread is about people who already agree with the point slapping each other on the back, sure, go ahead.

    But if you want to convince anyone, you may not want your numbers to be obviously made up. Putting aside that the phalanx shooting is an order of magnitude off, the same torpedo has 3 different prices one after another. Even someone who has no idea how much these things cost can see it's BS if they pay attention.

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