Does the Patriot anti aircraft missile system really cost $1 billion per system? A Patriot system consists of a tracked vehicle to carry the missiles and the radar, 6 or maybe 8 missiles and good radar. They sell tanks for like $50 million and a tank carries an expensive high power gun that Patriot doesn’t need. The missiles ought to go for $10 million or so. The radar would be a phased array type, which is pricey, may $20 million.
Add it all up and we have a price tag of $150 million. That’s not cheap, but is a whole bunch less than $1 billion which is the cost of a Patriot system according to the TV.
It would be nice if some newsies checked out the costs on Patriot. If newsies can count that high.
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