A few things to note are that the weapon system cost a total of $40million dollars to develop, and it's now deployed. That's nothing for a weapons system. Also, each time it shoots is projected to cost 59 cents. Compare that to several hundred thousand dollars (at least) per modern missile. Laser weapons are an absolute game changer. Mount a battle ship with some laser weapons for anti-air and anti-ship defense and a rail gun for blowing shit up over the horizon and you'd have one hell of an inexpensive and powerful weapons system.
source: Statistics: Posted by Satis — Tue Dec 23, 2014 4:57 pm
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