What is the cost breakdown for any armoured vehicle?

Fairyland SG

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 - ?%
Cool 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 SG

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

zenden9 SG

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 SG

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 SG

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

Fairyland SG

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

sgFish SG

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

Fairyland SG

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 SG

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 SG

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