Xref: utzoo sci.space:22455 sci.space.shuttle:5908 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!nic.MR.NET!kksys!wd0gol!newave!john From: john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III) Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: space news from June 11 AW&ST Summary: Price Of The B-2 Message-ID: <464@newave.UUCP> Date: 27 Jul 90 12:21:26 GMT References: <1990Jul23.045611.8147@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Jul24.183248.16311@cbnewsh.att.com> <565@egrunix.UUCP> Reply-To: john@newave.mn.org (John A. Weeks III) Followup-To: sci.space Organization: NeWave Communications Ltd, Eden Prairie, MN Lines: 28 In article <565@egrunix.UUCP> awesley@egrunix.UUCP (Tony Wesley) writes: > First henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: > >>> Total Voyager pricetag so far, including launches, is $865M. Another $30M > Then maw@cbnewsh.att.com (michael.a.weinstein) writes: > >>About the price for a single B2 bomber (this is so mind boggling that I > And mvk@pawl.rpi.edu (Michael V. Kent) writes: > >Actually, about the cost of 3 B2's. > The cost of the B-2 will be about 800 million per airplane. The price of the B-2 depends mainly on your accounting method. The program has about $22-Billion sunk into R&D so far. If you allocate this 22G evenly to each plane produced and assume a full production run, you get a figure around $800-Million. If you consider the $22-Billion to be a sunk cost, then each plane would cost only about $235-Million (according to Newsweak). Depending upon how you allocate the R&D money and the length of production run that you assume, one can argue just about any price for a B-2. -john- -- =============================================================================== John A. Weeks III (612) 942-6969 john@newave.mn.org NeWave Communications ...uunet!rosevax!bungia!wd0gol!newave!john ===============================================================================