110 Tomahawk Missels Launched. Each one costs app. $500,000!

[Umbro2914]

http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/11-10-2004-61475.asp

unbelievable. Unnecessary foreign intervention, and unnecessary spending.

[doodle]

I'm not a fan of unnecessary or elective bloodshed of brown people in these countries but many of these things have a shelf life, if they are near expiration date, isn't it better to use them instead of letting such costly toys go to waste?

[thasre]

I'm not a fan of unnecessary or elective bloodshed of brown people in these countries but many of these things have a shelf life, if they are near expiration date, isn't it better to use them instead of letting such costly toys go to waste?

No. Not if it means driving us further and further into debt, wasting more human life, creating more enemies spanning a larger range of the Middle East, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc.

That would be like buying an HDTV one can't afford, and then, realizing that it was a bad financial decision, saying, "Well, since I've already got it, it would be a waste not to by a BluRay player and invest in a surround-sound system and subscribing to DirecTV." One learns to cut one's losses.

[Agorism]

How u know 110?

[LibertyEagle]

I'm not a fan of unnecessary or elective bloodshed of brown people in these countries but many of these things have a shelf life, if they are near expiration date, isn't it better to use them instead of letting such costly toys go to waste?

Huh? People are DYING when these "toys" are used. People in a SOVEREIGN nation. We have no business being over there and interfering in a sovereign nation's affairs. NONE.

[tangent4ronpaul]

112

[amy31416]

Huh? People are DYING when these "toys" are used. People in a SOVEREIGN nation. We have no business being over there and interfering in a sovereign nation's affairs. NONE.

+1

[BenIsForRon]

Huh? People are DYING when these "toys" are used. People in a SOVEREIGN nation. We have no business being over there and interfering in a sovereign nation's affairs. NONE.

I'm not saying WE should be intervening, but the rebels in Benghazi have been calling for European and Arab intervention. They want the no fly zone.

[doodle]

Huh? People are DYING when these "toys" are used. People in a SOVEREIGN nation. We have no business being over there and interfering in a sovereign nation's affairs. NONE.

I was sarcasming.
But it is not accident that we end up in a major war on average every 20 years.

Courtesy of another poster who posted this clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDkhzHQO7jY&feature=player_embedded

[LibertyEagle]

I'm not saying WE should be intervening, but the rebels in Benghazi have been calling for European and Arab intervention. They want the no fly zone.

They may very well, be. It's still none of our business.

[sratiug]

I'm not saying WE should be intervening, but the rebels in Benghazi have been calling for European and Arab intervention. They want the no fly zone.

I'm sure you can personally vouch for their integrity, honesty, and ideals of representative government right? And if you can, you can also make sure these same honest people will come to power if we intervene, correct?

[muzzled dogg]

talk about a money bomb

[squarepusher]

talk about a money bomb

ziiiiinnnnngggggggggooo

[LibertyRevolution]

where is the shock and awe video...

[tangent4ronpaul]

i was sarcasming.
But it is not accident that we end up in a major war on average every 20 years.

Courtesy of another poster who posted this clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdkhzhqo7jy&feature=player_embedded

rotglmao!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tangent4ronpaul]

where is the shock and awe video...

It must be on PPV or the US mil sucks at marketing... Oh wait...

[Imperial]

We would not have won independence without the aid of the French. If the rebels largely want our help, and they are facing somebody who indiscriminately bombs their own people, then I would say the intervention is justified.

Although it should still receive congressional approval, Barbary War style.

[JK/SEA]

Don't forget. These missiles will have to be replaced. Double your cost. Insane.

[HOLLYWOOD]

Don't forget. These missiles will have to be replaced. Double your cost. Insane.


114 Tomahawk missiles of various configurations/models have been fired so far... according to Admiral Dipshit @ the Pentagon

Targets:

Libyan Air Force Academy
Military Air Defense sites
Qaddafi probable locations

Let's get the REAL costs on these Tomahawks...

estimated cost of $1.1 - 1.4 million for the currently Block IV model


SPECIFICATIONS

Primary Function: Long-range subsonic cruise missile for attacking land targets.
Contractor: Hughes Missile Systems Co., Tucson, Ariz.
Power Plant: Williams International F107-WR-402 cruise turbo-fan engine; solid-fuel booster
Length: 18 feet 3 inches (5.56 meters); with booster: 20 feet 6 inches (6.25 meters)
Weight: 2,650 pounds (1192.5 kg); 3,200 pounds (1440 kg) with booster
Diameter: 20.4 inches (51.81 cm)
Wing Span: 8 feet 9 inches (2.67 meters)
Range: Land attack, conventional warhead: 600 nautical miles (690 statute miles, 1104 km)
Speed: Subsonic - about 550 mph (880 km/h)
Guidance System: Inertial and TERCOM
Warheads: Conventional: 1,000 pounds Bullpup, or
Conventional submunitions dispenser with combined effect bomblets, or
WDU-36 warhead w/ PBXN-107 explosive & FMU-148 fuze, or
200 kt. W-80 nuclear device
Date Deployed: 1983
Costs $500,000 - current production Unit Cost basic generic, before pkg install configuration
$1,400,000 - average unit cost (TY$) <==== This what matters Average Unit Cost

$11,210,000,000 - total program cost (TY$) Total Program 4 170 missiles

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/smart/slcm11.gif

[tangent4ronpaul]

114 Tomahawk missiles of various configurations/models have been fired so far... according to Admiral Dipshit @ the Pentagon

Targets:

Libyan Air Force Academy
Military Air Defense sites
Qaddafi probable locations

Let's get the REAL costs on these Tomahawks...

estimated cost of $1.1 - 1.4 million for the currently Block IV model


SPECIFICATIONS

Primary Function: Long-range subsonic cruise missile for attacking land targets.
Contractor: Hughes Missile Systems Co., Tucson, Ariz.
Power Plant: Williams International F107-WR-402 cruise turbo-fan engine; solid-fuel booster
Length: 18 feet 3 inches (5.56 meters); with booster: 20 feet 6 inches (6.25 meters)
Weight: 2,650 pounds (1192.5 kg); 3,200 pounds (1440 kg) with booster
Diameter: 20.4 inches (51.81 cm)
Wing Span: 8 feet 9 inches (2.67 meters)
Range: Land attack, conventional warhead: 600 nautical miles (690 statute miles, 1104 km)
Speed: Subsonic - about 550 mph (880 km/h)
Guidance System: Inertial and TERCOM
Warheads: Conventional: 1,000 pounds Bullpup, or
Conventional submunitions dispenser with combined effect bomblets, or
WDU-36 warhead w/ PBXN-107 explosive & FMU-148 fuze, or
200 kt. W-80 nuclear device
Date Deployed: 1983
Costs $500,000 - current production Unit Cost basic generic, before pkg install configuration
$1,400,000 - average unit cost (TY$) <==== This what matters Average Unit Cost

$11,210,000,000 - total program cost (TY$) Total Program 4 170 missiles

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/smart/slcm11.gif

Can I get one w/ a saddle and a wind screen?

:D

[muzzled dogg]

thing does everything but sell popcorn at halftime

[JK/SEA]

So, everytime one of these is fired....3 million total cost.

Yeah, we need to fire more teachers so we can afford more of these wonderful firecrackers.

[Zippyjuan]

Paging Major Kong!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcW_Ygs6hm0&feature=related

[tangent4ronpaul]

I wonder if the guidance systems got the bugs worked out...

There was a "slight" problem with these "precision" guided munitions landing in the wrong places before....

Also - Libya does buy munitions from the former USSR - just like Iraq. Presumably these include GPS jamers - just like Iraq....

Note news reports of 2 cruise missiles landing "near" Gaddafi’s bunker...