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Help! Wanted: Estimated cost of weapons for a theoretical exercise

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Original Post Date: 2008-01-09 Time: 00:00:00  Posted By: Jan

Hi All,
I’ve been throwing some ideas around, and I have an interesting exercise I want to show you.

But first, I need some costs. I’m looking for costs for any military weapons – mostly infantry and light artillery weapons.

Its hard to find such costs, but I’ve found a few things. So if anyone can help – even if we can just do rough guesstimates that’s fine. Russian weapons are the most easily available, so their costs are probably the easiest to find.

I’ve been trying to find the costs of:-
AK47s, their ammunition, RPG’s, their rockets. Anything else will do too – handgrenades, machineguns, mortars, artillery, etc. Any old armoured vehicles and Personnel carriers?

I just need rough prices. Most prices will probably be in US Dollars.

I have found some, like this for example:-
http://www.ak-47.net/ak47/faq.html#Cost

In there it even has possible Ammunition costs – at $150 per case. (Question: How much ammunition is in a case?)

Here is a fascinating reference not just to RPG7’s but to RPG29’s!!!
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread76142/pg1

It mentions that RPG29 rocket launchers cost: $500 each and their rockets go for $300 each. (It seems way too cheap hey?)

How it it that an RPG29 could cost more than an AK47? (Which goes for about $1,000?)

I also found this fabulous Popular Mechanics article about the weapons of the insurgents: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/mi…br>
On this page I saw that even the US Army decided not to use laser-guided tank shells because they cost $400,000 each!!! See: http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htart/articl…br>
Check out this fascinating site:-
http://www.newinfantrycombatweaponssystem.com/

I can’t find the costs of mortars but I found this interesting page:
http://www.inetres.com/gp/military/infantry/mortar/81mm.html

This is an interesting site: http://www.inetres.com/gp/military/infantry/i…br>
Ok, costs are almost impossible to find, because no doubt terrorists would like this info. But, any estimates, or guesstimates are appreciated.

I’ll show you what I’m going to do with the numbers shortly.