Best Sniper Rifle in the World?
For $34K, it better shoot all by itself.
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November 26th, 2008 at 10:19 am
“Best .338 sniper rifle in the world” – I note they don’t challenge the .50BMG rifles..which cost less
November 26th, 2008 at 11:04 am
…and shoot farther.
November 26th, 2008 at 11:23 am
Accuracy International has always been high, but this is a package price.
It probably takes 10 Grand to add a top of the line scope, spotting scope, silencer, laser rangefinder ballistic calculator and hard case to a rifle to make a ‘system’, but still ……… $34K?
November 26th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
georgeh: Military contracts frequently also include services, especially maintenance. In the US at least there’s also a very high overhead for dealing with all the paperwork, contracting office, etc.
That’s where the $600 (or whatever) hammer garbage came from. The hammer didn’t cost nearly that much (although it was for working on jet engines as I recall), but when the yearly overhead for the maintenance items contract was divided by the number of items purchased, that bumped up its official Congressional grandstanding “price”.
November 27th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
It’s a new model rifle, I suppose the price is jacked up into the extreme because of the low volume of sales … not like they’ll be mass producing these rifles, so the few that get sold will have to carry the full cost of design and tooling engineering.
November 28th, 2008 at 9:24 am
Michael Hawkins: It’s a new variety of the Arctic Warfare Super Magnum they already have in service and that’s been around for a decade. See Wikipedia http://tinyurl.com/57yc77 for what’s been changed in this upgrade.
Unless the rifle needed a modification for the higher velocity and pressure round, the engineering costs shouldn’t be all that high, but when you add all these new widgets and probably some spare barrels (snipers have to shoot a lot to get and stay proficient) we can see at least some of where the per unit cost got so high.