Expensive missile

The US Department of Defense says that research and development of the anti-ballistic National Missile Defense programme will cost at least $6.6 billion.The estimate was contained in the latest Selected Acquisition Report, which tracks the cost of major Pentagon weapons programmes. The overall cost of the weapons projects held steady at $739 billion, but the total cost of the US Army's Raytheon TI Systems/Lockheed Martin Javelin medium-range anti-tank programme increased by $76 million, to nearly $4 billion, when it was decided to buy 842 more launchers.

Source: Flight International