Really? 400K? what the heck, that’s for one missile?
Outrageous.
Block II Sidewinder is 398k a pop. Jets are around 85k an hour to operate.
China can eat our defense budget up by launching a few thousand balloons that probably cost less than a grand each.
This is absurd. Yes, they should have shot the big one down and maybe these too but watching our politicians act like we don’t spy our asses off too is comical.
Big distraction...... it’s almost like a “sports controversy” on ESPN radio.
Pretty cheap considering we spend upwards of a trillion a year on defense.
Read up on the aim9x. Lot of hang for your buck.
Sometimes missiles just go stupid, it happens
But cost doesn’t matter when it’s the government and can print all the money needed.
That Sidwinder was overengineered to shoot down uberadvanced aliens from aonther planetary galaxy. I’d be inclined to think the Air Farce got a heck of a deal!
It’s designed to take down a $60 mill airplane. So $440K is a bargain.
I was just thinking that seems high for a 50ish year old missile.