@GreenSpike5 @RALee85 While the idea of doing something like this to an Iron Dome is attractive. It falls apart on financial grounds.
The US Army's 227mm GMLRS runs $110,000 a round after 50,000 have been built and production lines are running at 9,000 units a year.
The US Army's 227mm GMLRS runs $110,000 a round after 50,000 have been built and production lines are running at 9,000 units a year.
https://twitter.com/TotherChris/status/1389878703799377923
@GreenSpike5 @RALee85 The US Army likes to keep upgrading the GMLRS baseline over time. So their whole mass production cost reduction curve gets d*cked to h-ll and gone.
Yet even if the US Army accepted 100m versus 10m CEP, you are still in the $25,000-to-$40,000 per rocket range.
Yet even if the US Army accepted 100m versus 10m CEP, you are still in the $25,000-to-$40,000 per rocket range.
@GreenSpike5 @RALee85 Twelve Grad launchers with 40 rockets each is 480 rockets.
At $25K to $40K per rocket, you are talking about $12 million to $19.2 million for a saturation guided rocket attack.
That amounts to a virtual kill on your rocket ammo supply.
At $25K to $40K per rocket, you are talking about $12 million to $19.2 million for a saturation guided rocket attack.
That amounts to a virtual kill on your rocket ammo supply.
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