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August 08, 2005

Affordable weapons

I've been trying to come up with a witty remark concerning this one, but I cannot:

Cruise missiles have proven themselves in combat many times, but the U.S. Navy desired to drive down the cruise missile unit cost with a commercially-based, "cruise-like" affordable weapon missile—built entirely with off-the-shelf components and costing about a tenth of the cost of a traditional cruise missile.

Source: http://www.titan.com/products-services/abstract.html?docID=337)

Posted by Mark at August 8, 2005 10:16 PM