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From: welty@lewis.crd.ge.com (richard welty)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: How Many B-2's Are Enough ???
Summary: B-17 pricing
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Date: 21 Jul 89 04:09:28 GMT
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From: welty@lewis.crd.ge.com (richard welty)

In article <8413@cbnews.ATT.COM>, Jeff K Medcalf writes: 
*I also notice that a 747 costs about $174 million.  Even if the B-2's run at
*around $500 million each, I question whether that is too high of a cost
*differential.  Does anybody know the costs of a B-17 and a DC-3?  Or a B-52 and
*a 707?  Try comparing in those terms, and I am willing to bet that B-2 is not
*much, if any, above the ratio of cost of previous bombers and transports.

i don't know what a DC-3 costs, but early on in the B-17 program the price
was in the vicinity of $200,000/aircraft -- this was a pre-B-17E model (keep
in mind that there was a major redesign from the 17D to the 17E, with major
improvements in armor and armament.)

richard
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