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Originally posted by rob love
I think you missed a decimal point Jon; should be over 2 milliion. 227 thousand doesn't even buy a M113 these days.
Military vehicles, by their design and small contract quantities, are usually expensive. Examples are:
M381aCdn2 in 1967 $= $2200
M151A2 in 1974 $ $14,000
Iltis in 1984 $24,000
Wolf in 2005$ $160,000
MLVW in 1982 $ $64,000
LSVW in 1990 $ $64,000
HLVW wrecker 1992 $ $300,000
M113A1 in 1966 $ 29,000
M113A2 in 1986 $220,000
These figures are by memory, but should be pretty close.
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IIRC, Iltis in 1984 was $80,000.00 a copy...$24,000.00 off the shelf ex Deutschland. Of course we had to "Canadianize" it and get Bombardier to build it...Ooops, up goes cost per unit.
Yeah, I did mis -place a decimal point...my display overflowed and I got baffled with all the big numbers.
Hey..."What's a million?"
Trivia question: What Canadian cabinet minister said that?