consultancylosa.blogg.se - Costs of tanks in the military

More than 40 percent of the projected acquisition costs of Army ground combat vehicles are for Abrams tanks.

The projected procurement costs are greater (in constant dollars) than the average annual cost for such vehicles from 2010 to 2019 but approximately equal to the average annual cost from 2000 to 2019 (when spending was boosted because of operations in Iraq).

Total acquisition costs for the Army’s ground combat vehicles are projected to average about $5 billion per year (in 2020 dollars) through 2050-$4.5 billion for procurement and $0.5 billion for RDT&E.

Those projections include costs for research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) and for procurement but not the costs of operating and maintaining the vehicles.

Expanding on the Army’s stated plans, the Congressional Budget Office has projected the cost of acquiring such vehicles through 2050. The Army operates a fleet of ground combat vehicles-vehicles intended to conduct combat operations against enemy forces-and plans to continue to do so.