Is there a modern comparison like pic related? - /k/ (#63862147) [Archived: 1039 hours ago]

Anonymous
6/19/2025, 12:25:54 PM No.63862147
MIC
MIC
md5: d63b2340a261e05b4d42c6bc026d7839🔍
And if so:
What would it be?
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Anonymous
6/19/2025, 12:27:14 PM No.63862153
pic related
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 12:28:42 PM No.63862160
>>63862147 (OP)
Well $80000 Javelin was suprased by $800 FPV drone. Nature is healing.
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 12:32:40 PM No.63862168
Damn, it's almost like state-level actors can afford more than isolated humans can....
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 12:34:42 PM No.63862172
>>63862147 (OP)
Ain't inflation a bitch.
>As of Fiscal Year 2021, a G-model Javelin missile cost approximately $216,717, while the Lightweight Command Launch Unit (CLU) was around $249,700, according to Defense Advancement.
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Anonymous
6/19/2025, 12:47:44 PM No.63862211
>>63862172
The problem is that the Javelin is using the peak of 1980s military tech to make a missile rather than current consumer parts. The whole guidance system could be replaced with less then $200 worth of parts, but instead the military is stuck buying $40,000 worth of custom nonsense from 35 years ago.
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Anonymous
6/19/2025, 12:50:35 PM No.63862223
>>63862211
All those cheap commercial parts are made overseas, the MIC buys American which means TI can ask whatever they want.
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Anonymous
6/19/2025, 1:05:57 PM No.63862257
>>63862147 (OP)
Ah this Junger fellow is such an edgy faggot it almost makes me wish I can fire him out of that launcher
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 1:09:35 PM No.63862264
>>63862223
>All those cheap commercial parts are made overseas, the MIC buys American which means TI can ask whatever they want.
They literally don't and are in violation of the law.
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Anonymous
6/19/2025, 1:32:16 PM No.63862349
>>63862264
They don't violate the law anon, they would never overcharge it just that their suppliers (which happen to be owned by the same parent company) insist on charging $500 per bolt.