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Originally Posted by M21Sniper
The Queen mary is a freakin luxury cruiser.
You're not including R&D costs, Sys integration costs, and even your per unit cost is crazy low.
5 billion MINIMUM for one of these ships.
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It isn't built on DD(X) technology. It uses a conventional hull with existing technology running it outside of the automation. The DD(X) looks pretty stealthy, so I'm guessing that there is something adding to price that has a lot to do with that. Remember the Sea Shadow was a launch board for navy technology.
The fact it was a luxury liner makes no difference. Check my post from pg 2 or 3, that explains why a luxury liner is a good comparison when considering price without e-warfare or weapons systems. Because without those, all a DD(X) is, would be a small cruise ship. It's the weapons and warfare systems that add the cost. The Montana Class Battleship would cost about 400 million dollars if built today. Most people don't realize that because they don't actually understand how ships are built and where costs come from.
A unit price of 2.2 billion is being generous. It's really not any bigger than the DD(X). It's a matter of the armor that adds the weight. Check the statistics, it's roughly a little more in weight than a DD(X) without the armor.
Regardless, it's built to be cheap. Scrap metal would reduce the cost quite a good bit. And it's possible to decommission a Burke and rip the hardware out and re use it for say...one of these ships. They are wanting to replace the burkes anyways. Now the unit cost is less than 1 billion. See what I mean?