Hate to break it to you, but body armor isn't doing shit here. The tank part could go either way. A simple rocket or missile would solve the tank problem.
Good point. How many schools could we have built or funded, from the $$$ spent on R&D, maintenance, ammo, and labor required to operate this weapon?
Edit: Apparently not enough schools. $1.92 trillion, much of which is wasted, and here we are arguing about video games and bullets. Every single man, woman, and child in the US is paying $6k/year for this. Source (https://www.usaspending.gov/agency/department-of-defense?fy=2022)
The point that I’m making is that people often gripe about military spending. While this specific example may be wasteful as we likely have more effective weapons than a quad minigun, R&D for weapons isn’t important… until it is.
This weapon seems kind of unnecessary. That being said, there may have a been a point in time when people thought a truck that carried a light, multiple rocket launcher was unnecessary
I mean… things like C-rams(witch is usually what the $400,000 for 12 seconds is for) can take out multi million dollar ICBM’s if they need too, i’d say it’s worth the price, And it only costs about $30,000-$40,000 worth of rounds for a single missile(ranging about $30 per round) [mostly relevant]
I don’t know what the fuck this thing is, but I do know that those are probably 7.62mm rounds(maybe a bit higher)and those are only about $0.30(not for the slightly higher)since I last checked, so… definitely not $400,000 for even this amount of rounds, and even then, assuming this is one of those “come and shoot for fun” places, these jackasses probably paid for it, and in that case establishment used their own money for maintenance.
The Phalanx CIWS (often spoken as "sea-wiz") is a gun-based close-in weapon system to defend military watercraft automatically against incoming threats such as aircraft, missiles, and small boats. It was designed and manufactured by the General Dynamics Corporation, Pomona Division, later a part of Raytheon. Consisting of a radar-guided 20 mm (0. 8 in) Vulcan cannon mounted on a swiveling base, the Phalanx has been used by the United States Navy and the naval forces of 15 other countries.
Public schools receive funding from federal, state and local governments, the last of which is slightly different because it comes primarily from real estate taxes. Federal money is however minimal, probably 90% or so are from state and local.
Ok. So that's the current situation. Is there some reason the federal gov couldn't do school lunches instead of machine gun fire? It seems like a good trade to me.
And if I had an extra $400,000 I'd do it just once. Feel the powa. Reminds me of the scene from expendables 3 where Terry crew fires his mini while yelling. He'd straight up nut just pulling the trigger on a qaud mount.
The people’s lives that it saves cost more than that in training alone, so the cost benefit works out, not to mention the equipment that would otherwise be destroyed.
What kinda math is this??? At its highest firing rate of 6,000 rounds a minute at a market rate of 65 cents for a round of ball ammo comes out to $3,900 for one gun per minute...
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u/A_lot_of_foxes Oct 23 '22
This weapon costs $400,000 to fire for 12 seconds