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unhappycamper

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2. Naaah. We're headed off a financial cliff.

Reply to sarisataka (Original post)

Mon Oct 13, 2014, 06:34 AM

Oct 2014

According to wikipedia, this bad boy is over $3,400,000,000 ($3.4B).

In contrast, WW II Iowa-class battleships cost $100,000,000 ($100M).

Every combat jet jet we've built in the last 15 years is at least $100+ million dollars.

F-22: $418 million dollars
F-35: who the fuck knows
Ford-class aircraft carriers: $16 ~ $40 billion (each)
Zumwalt-class destroyers: at least $5.6 billion (each)

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Fair point you make. It can double as a floating island, a command center, etc. MADem Oct 2014 #1

Naaah. We're headed off a financial cliff. unhappycamper Oct 2014 #2