Can anyone give me a cost of a cruise missile? In simple financial terms. Assume that I have the wherewithal to launch it etc. I just want to know how much it would cost to buy one, assuming that I could.

last time I bought one it was around 5.87

A touch under £1million each I believe.

Just going by how happy they seem to be to use them, I reckon about a tenner. Give or take.

Complete stab in the dark, £65,000.

With or without VAT?

Two carbon fat bikes and a Jeff Jones Truss fork.

it’s the delivery costs you need to worry about

Blimey- that was fast!

Ernie- source?

Ernie cheated, approximate costs are on wikipedia (where else). A Storm Shadow (as used by the RAF) costs £790,000 and we ordered 900 of them!

Still if you think that we bombed a city flat with 1000 4 engine heavies but still usually missed the main targets in WW2 I suppose that is cheap if the 97% success rate is to be believed.

Were around a million a pop during the Gulf war iirc.

Ernie cheated

I read it in the Guardian today.

Here’s another source :

http://www.economist.com/node/21563702

On One are doing some – direct – for about half that. The paint is a bit dodgy and some of the fins are squint and need hand-finished.

You could go the Superstar route too. They are available in any anodized colour you want but might only make it half way to the target.

Within the existing Tomahawk program, yearly budgets are rising even though the number of missiles per year remains constant at 196. This is pushing flyaway cost for new missiles from $956,000 in FY 2013 to about $1.2 million
no idea if it’s dependable source though

You could go the Superstar route too. They are available in any anodized colour you want but might only make it half way to the target.

So Superstar are re-branding SCUD missiles as Tomahawks?

I found some on e-bay from China, much cheaper do you think it will be fine?

Looks like we won’t need to buy any more for a while…

Chinese copies on e bay cheap but don’t let the Mods find out or the thread will get closed then reopened.

ROFLCOPTERS!!

depends who is buying, discount for big orders init

Unless something changes for the better (hopefully), I hear Syria may have a shipment coming in that might exceed what they want, so a good deal might be available (although used, not new)

Do you get a discount when they are delivered? BOGOF offers for Syria??

Bad move as they are now obsolete.

The new versions have an increased diameter, enabling them to fly more smoothly (though it does affect their maneuverability).

Nope, they’re already superseded by a design that’s exactly half the difference in size between the original and old ‘new’ model. Apparently it gives the best of both worlds and should have been the specification in the first place.

@scotroutes- brilliant 🙂

maybe thats why they are £790K

Damn… we better find an excuse use them up before the warranty expires…

🙁

New 650b Cruise, literally making the bombing zone come alive*

*may not be true

They should only be used if there’s a guaranteed no-returns policy….

Buy ? Build your own

I’m sure there was a kiwi who built his own version from some off the shelf items, he published it on the web

The powers that be seemed to be slightly miffed

http://www.interestingprojects.com/cruisemissile/

It’s safe to say arounf $1M USD in purchase price but the true cost is a little bit more complicated and works out a lot better value.

If you consider the cost of operating and maintaining an aircraft to drop conventional bombs and factor in the risk of losing that aircraft then then they start to make sense and then you have the benefit of lower risk of losing a pilot.

Do you need different Cruise missiles for mud?
I’d really like a fast rolling good one that lasts a while but also hits the spot and makes a lot of noise. Is that moon on a stick thinking?

Well played Mikewsmith.

Do they come with a crown race?

they are free and delivery is ace….right into the window of your choice! you just need to use chemical weapons on your local population before some western government will send you a couple.

Price or cost? I reckon the cost of each Misile is the death of a fair few innocent people. So it’s about how you reckon those innocent lives cost or the price we put on them, and are they worth the tally score at the end of the shootout? £800000 for a tomahawk. How much for a life?

Can they claim back VAT after it left the shore?

Depends which country. That is the scary fact about this, hint of Chemical weapons in the west and we would have launched everything at anyone. This is only Syria….

Seems to be a clown race on to use them.