What is the cost breakdown for any armoured vehicle?

• Fairyland

  1 Jul 04, 10:21

  Just curious - for any tracked armoured vehicle, which is the costliest sub-system?
  
  1) Engine - ?%
  2) Transmission - ?%
  3) Chassis with baseline armour - ?%
  4) Suspension - ?%
  5) Vetronics - ?%
  6) Turret for 25mm gun - ?%
  7) Battle Management System - ?%
  Add-On Passive Armour - ?%
  9) Road wheels and tracks - ?%
  
  Don't know if I have left anything out, but which is the most costly part of the vehicle?
  
  Would appreciate if someone can offer any inputs on this?
• ditzy

  1 Jul 04, 10:43

  Its so frikkin outrageous, you wonder sometimes why an oversized ping pong ball can actually set you back $250.
• zenden9

  1 Jul 04, 15:19

  The track will cost the most,heard from a news after don't know how many kilometres,they must replace the track of a armour vehicle!
• Fairyland

  1 Jul 04, 15:51

  Ditzy: What's $250 about? A fine for molesting someone?!!!
  
  And how is a ping pong ball involved in armoured vehicle?
  
  Zenden: Life cycle costs most probably the tracks. But what about the per unit cost? Which sub-system accounts for most of it?
• ditzy

  1 Jul 04, 15:55

  Originally posted by Fairyland:

  Ditzy: What's $250 about? A fine for molesting someone?!!!
  
  And how is a ping pong ball involved in armoured vehicle?
  
  Zenden: Life cycle costs most probably the tracks. But what about the per unit cost? Which sub-system accounts for most of it?

  Well, if ur 28 tonne monster went for a swim and never came back, you sure would wanna know where it went right?
• Fairyland

  1 Jul 04, 16:29

  Originally posted by ditzy:

  Well, if ur 28 tonne monster went for a swim and never came back, you sure would wanna know where it went right?

  Hmm, I would like to empathise but I still dun get it!
• sgFish

  1 Jul 04, 17:27

  Originally posted by Fairyland:

  Hmm, I would like to empathise but I still dun get it!

  "In case of a water landing, you may be used as a floatation device"
• Fairyland

  2 Jul 04, 08:57

  Such is the power of the Singapore military industrial complex!
  
  Was prepared for this to happen and have been preparing for a "landing" elsewhere.
  
  I think I will "go and die lah".......in effect.
• panzerjager

  2 Jul 04, 19:58

  Originally posted by Fairyland:

  Just curious - for any tracked armoured vehicle, which is the costliest sub-system?
  
  1) Engine - ?%
  2) Transmission - ?%
  3) Chassis with baseline armour - ?%
  4) Suspension - ?%
  5) Vetronics - ?%
  6) Turret for 25mm gun - ?%
  7) Battle Management System - ?%
  Add-On Passive Armour - ?%
  9) Road wheels and tracks - ?%
  
  Don't know if I have left anything out, but which is the most costly part of the vehicle?
  
  Would appreciate if someone can offer any inputs on this?

  For a typical IFV equivalent to Bionix or later versions of it, the most expensive one-time cost item is the sighting/FCS system, could make up at least a quarter of the entire vehicle's drive-away cost alone
• bot_in_shop

  2 Jul 04, 23:18

  Well, it actually depends on whether you look upon the sub-system as a recurring expense item or not.