Does anybody know how much a B-52 cost?

[excalibur000]

Does anybody know how much a B-52 cost? I always hear that B-52 is a cheap and effective weapon but how much a b52 cost? does anybody know?

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Wang YaNan

[Warager]

a google search wont be bad http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/bomber/b-52.htm

It cost like 30 million dollars

B-52 Operating Costs Per Mission, (Avg)

Aircraft POL $3,397
Depot maintenance $4,424
Transportation $3,468
Military sea transport service $2,312
Stevedoring $626
Commercial surface $530
Systems support supplies $1,349
Base operating support $1,270
KC-l35 support (refueling) $1,368
Munitions $22,500
Aircraft spares $872
Military personnel $2,773
Total average cost per mission $41,421
Avg tonnange drop 27
Est cost per ton $833

[Michael Emrys]

I recall that the first B-52s, up through the D model, ran somewhere around $8 million each coming off the production lines. That was in early-mid '50s dollars though.

[excalibur000]

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[excalibur000]

what does POL mean? Per off and landing?

[Michael Emrys]

what does POL mean? Per off and landing?

Petrol (in this case JP4 or a later version), Oil & Lubricants. Or to put it another way, the major petroleum distillates consumed by a service.

[Peter H]

Now 60 years in service:
http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=83D336 ... 2CDB1705B7
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... ds-newsxml

....there is no end in sight for the iconic war machine. With upgrades slated for between 2013 and 2015, the U.S. Air Force's 30-year forecast envisions a role for the B52 into the 2040s....

...As of April last year, the USAF still had 94 of their original 744 B52s in service, with periodical refurbishments at Air Force maintenance depots.

While Fifties-vintage B52s are no longer in the USAF inventory, those that remain on active duty (a total of 744 were built, counting all models) aren't that much younger.

They're all the H model of the B52, delivered between May 1961 and October 1962, Cnet reports, with the youngest about to celebrate its 50th birthday.

So despite more than half a century of aeronautical innovation, the Pentagon continues to rely on bombers from 50 years ago, as yet unsurpassed in their economy and fearsome effectiveness.