Cost of the PGK in the article is about $10,000. Production cost of the Excaliber is about $68,000. The development cost has all been spent, and is no longer relevant to us.
Will they be ready in time for the convention in Cleveland?
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Affordable? Good, I’ll order some.
I just need to wait until my affordable fusion reactor, my affordable space satellite weapon, my affordable nuclear defense shield, and my affordable NSA like intelligence network comes in.
This sounds as devastating as a weapons enhancement in WWII that was developed in secrecy as tight as that of nuclear weapons. I refer to proximity fuzes -—
After General Dwight D. Eisenhower demanded he be allowed to use the fuzes, the VT fuzes were used in the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944, when they made the Allied artillery far more devastating, as all the shells now exploded just before hitting the ground. It decimated German divisions caught in the open. The Germans felt safe from timed fire because they thought that the bad weather would prevent accurate observation. The effectiveness of the new VT fused shells exploding in mid-air, on exposed personnel, caused a minor mutiny when German soldiers started refusing orders to move out of their bunkers during an artillery attack. U.S. General George S. Patton said that the introduction of the proximity fuze required a full revision of the tactics of land warfare.[27]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximity_fuze#Deployment