Another mystery is WHERE would you be buying these in 2017?
The Defense Department probably had to put out a bid to have them specially manufactured. 500 units at a cost of $32,918 each.
Lol, I was curious about that too! Another fantastic use of taxpayer’s money... It never ends...
“Another mystery is WHERE would you be buying these in 2017?”
Defense contracts do it, but probably at a significant cost. DoD pays companies not to deprecate things. For one NORAD system, we paid HP to keep 32k magnetic core memory parts for us, and those things cost about $65k a piece well into the 1990’s.