The Infantry Squad Vehicle shares 90% of its components with a Chevy Colorado. The top Trim Colorado costs $30K usd or so, but the the ISV costs $330k. What makes up the 10% difference between the Colorado and the ISV?

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Not trying to hate. Maybe it’s armour, maybe it’s guns, but that is a big difference.

In: Economics

Answer 1

Aside from the extreme government contract bloat; the ISV carries 10 people, can be lifted from any angle at almost any point by helicopter, can be airdropped, and can cover terrain that a commercial truck couldn’t dream of.

Because we don’t have the specs, we can’t individually price out each of the major reinforcement upgrades, but the total price will probably be somewhere around $60-70k. The rest will be extreme government contract bloat.

Remember, government dollars don’t equal real person dollars. Remember that the Federal government spent over $100 million to build a state of the art airport and harbor in Akutan, a town with 750 residents, no roads that connect to it, and neglected to give either the airport or harbor working electricity or running water.