Well, it’s also worth forty thousand bucks a piece, which puts it way out of your price range for self-defence against rogue attack helicopters.
If I were you I’d look into surplus Soviet stuff - first generation SA-7s, maybe a Polish-made ZSU, that kind of stuff. Cheap crap, but rugged and more than efficient enough to cover most home applications. Glad to be of help :).
To repeat, if you have enough money to afford to buy such cost-prohibitive weapons and you want one, being banned in New Jersey, etc. is not an obstacle to getting it because you can get it from your residence in Pennsylvania. But that’s not what this is about. This whole thread is about whether or not someone should be allowed to own them, and I stated, correctly, that if you can afford them you can own them.
Thanks. I thought they were around the 33k range, which I could certainly afford. I wonder about importation duties on the SA-7 though. The government would probably want to help out the home-grown missile companies.
Is this a statement actually that an american government could not achieve suppression of a domestic insurgency except by use of nuclear weapons?
I am afraid you americans are very naive about these things. I do not think an american government would be less competent if it chose than the government in Algiers. It was never brought to its knees even though many of the insurgent members had in the 1990s very good military training from its own forces.
I understand I think now the market for that strange movie that was released.
I’m still searching for online references one way or another about the legality of owning Stingers, but it occurs to me that all the defense companies that manufacture military ordinance might be under contract to sell them only to the US government or approved parties.
That sounds way cheap. Is that all in for both the launcher system and a missile?
Also, they have a shelf life. If you buy one you have to use it within a certain period of time; I can’t recall it is was the warhead or the launcher itself that wears out or what it was, but I know they only last five years or so. They’re surprisingly finicky weapons. So if you’re going to start your insurrection, you have to buy your Stingers close to the big day, you can’t stockpile them for long.
No idea - I was going by Wiki. I also don’t know if that’s a strict cost per unit or the bulk rates they give the Army, or even the full cost of the program divided by the number of units shipped.