More money scheduled for the MIC shithole:

[unhappycamper]

Poll question: More money scheduled for the MIC shithole:

A prototype Joint Light Tactical Vehicle being tested in Nevada.


New Army trucks may cost $350,000 each: GAO
Oct. 27, 2011, 2:08 p.m. EDT
By Christopher Hinton, MarketWatch

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The U.S. military’s humvee truck replacement is expected to cost the U.S. around $350,000 each, on average, before tacking on armor and any additional high-tech equipment, according to a Government Accountability Office report released this week.

Adding the armor would raise costs by an additional $60,000, while additional options could take the final price tag for some variants to $600,000, the investigative arm of Congress concluded.

The humvee — the Pentagon’s acronym for “high mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicle” — has been in production since 1985.

The Joint Light Tactical Vehicle is expected to have three variants, divided by weight class. The smallest class would be a general purpose utility vehicle; a mid-sized vehicle would carry troops and act as a mobile command center; the largest class could be used as a cargo carrier or an ambulance.



unhappycamper comment: It's pretty fucking sad when an Army truck costs more than an F-22, two F-35s or a Littoral Combat Ship. What do you think?

[ixion]

1. A new 'Bradley'

joy. :sarcasm:

[Shagbark Hickory]

2. Other: Bring back the Hummer, make this the latest model and sell it to 1%ers for a profit.

They they can all play war with each other.

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. It looks like the new intercity rail system that

will never be built because of MIC

[lonestarnot]

4. mmmm. fucking piece of shit!

K & R!

[corkhead]

5. "Army truck costs more than an F-22, two F-35s or a Littoral Combat Ship. What do you think?"

I agree with your point, but I think you are off by a few zeros $350k vs hundreds of millions per.

[unhappycamper]

6. You are correct.

My bad. :shrug:

[corkhead]

7. easy to do, I had to do a double-take myself when I first looked at it.

[krispos42]

8. That seems a bit high.

It's an armored light truck. We sell a couple of million examples a year in the US.

I mean, I understand that being covered in light armor is a bit more expensive than sheetmetal, but c'mon. And they did a lot of computer modeling and real-live testing to make it mine- and- IED- resistant, but really, once you design it, you're going to make tens of thousands of identical copies. You don't refresh the design every two years and replace the platform every 5, like a Camry.

I would expect MAYBE a third of that, including the .50 caliber on top.