How Much Does the LOCUST Laser Weapon Cost?
A LOCUST laser weapon system costs roughly roughly $8 million per unit, not from an official AeroVironment price sheet. The Army has since selected the newer LOCUST X3 for a $464.8 million production program covering dozens of systems plus support…
How Much Does an Anduril Dive-LD Underwater Drone Cost?
An Anduril Dive-LD autonomous underwater vehicle costs about $2.5 million per vehicle based on the best public reported estimate, not an Anduril catalog price. The U.S. Navy also awarded Anduril an initial $18.6 million procurement covering…
How Much Does an Oil Tanker Cost?
A new commercial oil tanker in the international market currently costs about $49.86 million for a 50,000-dwt MR product tanker up to about $128.91 million for a 320,000-dwt VLCC, based on September tanker price benchmarks from Korea Ocean Business…
How Much Does the Army’s CIRCM Anti-Missile System Cost?
The U.S. Army's Common Infrared Countermeasures system, known as CIRCM, has a current FY2027 B-kit manufacturing cost of $1.888444 million per kit. The same Army procurement budget shows a gross weapon-system unit cost of $3.906556 million,…
How Much Does a JDAM-ER Bomb Cost?
JDAM-ER is an extended-range version of the Joint Direct Attack Munition family, combining precision guidance with a deployable wing kit that turns a conventional bomb body into a longer-range glide weapon.
No public 2026 contract gives one…
How Much Does Greece’s Achilles Shield Cost?
Greece’s Achilles Shield air-defense program will cost €3.035 billion, about $3.5 billion, under the defense agreement Greece signed with Israel on August 31, 2026. The signed Greek program budget makes this the largest defense export agreement…
How Much Does a Geran-4 Drone Cost?
The Geran-4 is a Russian jet-powered one-way attack UAV that entered combat use over Ukraine in 2026. Public reporting does not reveal an audited Russian procurement invoice, but current August 2026 estimates cluster around $100,000 per drone,…
How Much Does an Iskander-1000 Missile Cost?
The Iskander-1000 name now refers to Russia's upgraded 9M723-2 ballistic missile, which entered documented combat use in 2026. Procurement records reported by Militarnyi point to a 2025 order valued at 221 million rubles per missile, translated…
How Much Does a Banderol Cruise Missile Cost?
The S8000 Banderol is a Russian jet-powered cruise missile built around commercial and foreign-made components. Current open-source reporting places a complete Banderol near $50,000 to $150,000 per unit in August 2026, according to the Kyiv…
How Much Does a Blackbeard Hypersonic Missile Cost?
Blackbeard is Castelion's hypersonic strike weapon family, moving from prototype work toward Navy and Army fielding. Current procurement evidence points to roughly $384,000 per missile in the Pentagon's five-year planning data, with early contract…
How Much Does a Gerbera Drone Cost?
The Gerbera is a Russian fixed-wing unmanned aircraft first documented during the war in Ukraine and used in decoy, reconnaissance, communications, and limited strike roles. Public 2026 figures place a basic configuration as low as $2,000 in…
How Much Does an X-Bow Interceptor Cost?
X-Bow Systems has two public interceptor-related figures that describe different purchases. The company's Buckler counter-drone interceptor was introduced in July 2026 at under $100,000 per round, according to the Buckler launch announcement.…