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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Primitive Screwhead" data-source="post: 4390554" data-attributes="member: 20805">This isn't a new phenomenon... in 2e a +1 Longsword cost the same as a fully outfitted, and crewed, Galleon....Magic items, especially swords, have never made sense to me. But they are a part of DnD and a serious part of the new math in 4e. So, who makes those IMC? Nobody alive. They are all legendary weapons from ages past, endowed with divine power, or manifestations of ancestral destiny.Last I checked, it was about $20,000 to take a civilian and get them through Marine Corps Basic training and Advanced Infantry school. That does not include the cost of sustaining beans, bullets and bandaids post training.Manned airplanes in the military generally have a 15 to 20 year lifespan. The UH-1 {Huey} and the B-52 are two airframes that have exceeded that.Unmanned platforms {UAV} have yet to become more cost effective primarily due to the cost of the infrastructure/C2 nodes required to fly one. The lifespan of UAVs have yet to be determined, but the current model, <a href="http://fas.org/irp/program/collect/predator.htm" target="_blank">Predator</a>, has been in operation for over 10 years.further threadjack, according to some old numbers from <a href="http://www.geocities.com/three_strikes_legal/prison_costs.html]LA Times" target="_blank">http://www.geocities.com/three_strikes_legal/prison_costs.html]LA Times</a>, the per prisoner cost hit $31,000 per year....Ooops, time to let the thread go back to where it was headed <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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