Tanks for Sale
Good Happiness
18-05-2006, 19:21
Good happines will sell M1A1 Abrams for £400,000 per tank
The NSSR
18-05-2006, 19:24
Comrade, I would like to buy 500! Thank you.
Eldtonia
19-05-2006, 00:41
Eldtonia would like to buy 3000 to supplament our forces
Um, yeah... You are seriously losing a ton of money here. The M1 costs a helluva lot more than that. (I can't remember the exact figures, though... Upwards of $3 million US, probably more)
Um, yeah... You are seriously losing a ton of money here. The M1 costs a helluva lot more than that. (I can't remember the exact figures, though... Upwards of $3 million US, probably more) Maybe he's downgrading by using aluminuk armour and hand cranked engines.
Gejigrad
19-05-2006, 00:58
[ Sounds like tanks sold at Wal-Mart. ]
Eldtonia
19-05-2006, 01:00
hey, its practly free M1A1's, Im no gonna complain!!
[ Sounds like tanks sold at Wal-Mart. ] Maybe he country IS wal-mart!
The Parkus Empire
19-05-2006, 01:10
I'll take a thousand, that would bee 400,000,000 pounds. Here you go!
United Earthlings
19-05-2006, 01:16
Um, yeah... You are seriously losing a ton of money here. The M1 costs a helluva lot more than that. (I can't remember the exact figures, though... Upwards of $3 million US, probably more)
The lastest estimate I heard for the M1A2 (SEP) was 5.6 million.
The lastest estimate I heard for the M1A2 (SEP) was 5.6 million.
Yeah, I thought it was something like that.
The Macabees
19-05-2006, 01:46
Remember that tank prices in the real world are dictated by the amounts of production. The M1A2 SEP on a larger production scale could be much cheaper, especially if they're all like NS tanks... the same. It just gets expensive to produce them in low quantities and all somewhat unique from each other.
United Earthlings
19-05-2006, 01:51
Remember that tank prices in the real world are dictated by the amounts of production. The M1A2 SEP on a larger production scale could be much cheaper, especially if they're all like NS tanks... the same. It just gets expensive to produce them in low quantities and all somewhat unique from each other.
Well considering the Abrams tank has enjoyed a pretty good producation history- I think its safe to say 5.6 million- is about as cheap as its going to get. Also- alot if not most of the M1A2(SEP's) are just upgraded M1A2's.
The Macabees
19-05-2006, 01:58
Well, it's not a good production run when you compare it to the production run of older Soviet tanks, or tanks during the Second World War. This is the same for most main battle tanks of the later Cold War and after. The fact is that if you want each tank to be unique then it's going to cost you. On NationStates tanks are produced in numbers beyond ten thousand for single nations, and if you export it widely this can easilly surpass one hundred thousand. These tanks are not going to be unique from one another. Production is invariably going to become cheaper.