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From: darragh@maths.tcd.ie (Darragh J. Delany)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: CNN & battelfield communications
Message-ID: <1991Jan25.033037.12082@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 25 Jan 91 03:30:37 GMT
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From: darragh@maths.tcd.ie (Darragh J. Delany)
In article <1991Jan22.015042.19969@cbnews.att.com> stevew@wyse.wyse.com (Steve Wilson x2580 dept303) writes:
>I heard they were going for $1 Million a shot...ABC posted a 
>number stating that we'd expended 200 Million worth of Tomahawks
>by the 3rd or 4th day of battle.
>
Seems kind of a waste to use them for conventional warhead delivery in that
case

>As a side note I think I also heard that the Patriots go for
>around $1.2 Million each.

I believe the figure is actually $400k. 
So does anyone know what a SCUD or FROG would cost these days, it would
be nice to know exactly what sort of cost effectiveness ratio they give,
ie is it cheaper to attack or defend (this is of course academic in the 
current situation but in terms of any subsequent arms race the hard cash
element is worth knowing about).

Darragh


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