Originally Posted by
Hughes500
Mee3
What utter bollocks. The US military paid for the development of both machines. Are you really telling me that a piece of garden mesh on a plastic frame is $ 15k. I get a blade on the same machine is the same price ! My neighbour used to make compressor wheels for RR 250. They cost a fraction and i mean a fraction of what RR charged them out . So it is possible to make a machine that doesnt cost the earth
What a stupid comparison. Do you think the sell price of anything in life is based on the cost of manufacture? Maybe pencils. Supply-demand. The large investment in R&D, to supply a small industry, and one which is not consumer/volume based.
An iphone costs $100 to make, if that.
It costs a truckload of cash to develop a safe machine which doesn’t cost much to make.