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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Cost of a new shuttle (actually B-1)
Message-ID: <9596@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Feb-86 03:55:42 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 17 03:55:42 1986
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References: <8602111608.AA14971@hermes> <11815@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
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In article <11815@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> desj@brahms.UUCP writes:
>In article <8602111608.AA14971@hermes> dms@MIT-HERMES.ARPA writes:
>>For sake of comparison, the price of a B1 bomber is around 1 billion,
>>and the plan is to build 100 of them. How about building 90 B1
>>bombers and 5 more shuttles?
>
>   I am getting really sick of people posting numbers to the net which
>are off by orders of magnitude.  The estimated cost of each B-1 is more
>like $100 million.

You're both wrong. 34 B-1B bombers were purchased in 1985 for a cost
of $208.8 million each, according to "America's War Machine" by Tom
Gervasi.

Have you been talking to REM or something?



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