The cost of a modern warships

[Manticore]

I found these kind of threads on multiple forums -- the latest pricetags are of 2011

It should be noted that these price tags may not be strictly accurate and vary on different fora - but it would give us an idea of the international market and what great deals our chinese brothers might be giving us.
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Aircrafts-Carriers:

- US 100 000+ tons CVN 79: 10,4 $ billion.
- US 100 000+ tons CVN 78: 11,5 $ billion.
- US 100 000+ tons CVN 77: 6,26 $ billion.
- UK 60 000 tons Queen Elizabeth (with catapults): 7 £ billion (both).
- UK 60 000 tons Queen Elizabeth (SVTOL): 5,2 £ billion (both).
- France 40 000 tons Charles de Gaulles: 3,7 $ billion.
- Italian 37 000 tons Cavour: 2 $ billion (1,5 € billion).
- Indian 40 000 tons"Vikrant": 762 $ million.
- Japanese 15 000 tons "Hyuga": 1,06 $ billion.

Submarines (SSBN)
- French "Le Terrible" : $3.8 billion
- US SSBN(X) Ohio : $7 billion (est.)

Submarines (SSN)
- US Virginia SSN-$2.4 billion
- UK Astute SSN: $2,410 million
- French Barracuda :$1.35 billion

Submarines (SSK)
- German/Portugal Type 209 : $550 million
- German Type 212 : $525 million
- German Type 214 : $500 million
- German/Israeli Dolphin : $635 million
- French/Spain Scorpene : $825 million
- Sweden Gotland : $365 million
- Russian Improved Kilo : $350 million

5000+ tons Cruisers/Destroyers:
- US DDG 1000 class: 6,3 $ billion for the first two; 2,7 $ billion for the 3rd ship.
- US Arleigh Burke Flight III: +/- 2/2,4 $ billion.
- US Arleigh Burke class: 1,8 $ billion.
- UK Daring DDG: 976 $ million.
- Franco-Italo FREMM: 745 $ million.
- Spanish F-100 Bazan: 600 $ million.
- Spanish F-105 Cristobal Colomb: 954 $ million.
- Dutch De Zeven Provincien: 532 $ million.
- Danish Absalon: 269 $ million.
- Danish Iver-Huitfeldt: 332 $ million.
- German Type 124: 1,06 $ billion.

3000/4000 tons Corvettes/OPV/Frigates:
- US Bertholf cutter: 641 $ million.
- US LCS Freedom: 637 $ million.
- US LCS Independance: 704 $ million.
- Norwegian "Nansen": 557 $ million.
- South African Valour Meko 200A: 327 $ million.
- Paskistani F-22P: 200 $ million.


1000/2500 tons Corvettes/OPV


- Dutch "Holland": 169 $ million.
- German Braunschweig K-130 :$309 million
- Turkish Milgem : $250 million
- Malaysian Kedah : $300 million
- Omani Khareef : $262 million
- UAE Baynunah : $137 million
- UAE Falaj 2 : $136 million
- UK Clyde : $47,000,000
- Danish Knud Rasmussen : $50 million
- Spanish BAM : $116 million
- New Zealand Otago : $62.6 million
- Trinidad & Tobago Port of Spain : $76 million
- UK River $31,400,000
- South Africa Sarah Baartman/ Damen 8313 : $20 million
- Sentinel : $47 million
- Indonesian/Moroccan Sigma : $222 million
- Sweden Visby : $184 million

Fast Attack Craft:
- Egypt/USA Ambassador MK III : $325 million
- Cyclone patrol craft : $31 million
- Finnish Hamina : $101 million
- New-Zealand Rotoiti : $25 million
- Norwegian Skjold : $133.5 million
- US M80 Stiletto : $6 million


Amphibious ships (LHD):
- US America LHA-6: $3.05 billion
- Australian Canberra : $1.3 billion
- Spanish Juan Carlos : $490 million- US Makin Island LHD-8 : $2.2 billion
- French Mistral : $529.8 million

Amphibious (LPD)
- US San Antonio : $1.76 billion
- Chinese Kunlan Shan : $300 million
- General Frank S. Besson LSV-$32 million
- Indonesia KRI Dr. Soeharso : $50 million
- UK Bay : $228 million
- Singapore Endurance : $142 million
- Dutch Johan de Witt : $370 million

Auxiliaries:
- US Lewis and Clark (T-AKE)-$538 million
- Spanish Patino (AOR) : $288 million
- German Type 702 Berlin (AOR) : $445 million
- US Sea Fighter FSF 1 : $200 million
- USNS Howard O. Lorenzen (T-AGM-25) : $199 million
- UK Wave Knight Auxiliary Oiler : $172 million
- US Joint High Speed Vessel (JHSV) : $160 million
- New-Zealand MRV Canterbury : $124 million

 

[Manticore]

Warship Costs « New Wars
Combat Fleets Of The World: Warships-Cost

i've looked over 7-8 fora -- however updates and additions are always appreciated

 

[Donatello]

US throws **** loads of money on it's ships.

 

[Jango]

so thats why US has such a large defence budget, well they have only 80 arleigh burke class destroyers to begin with!!!

 

[pmukherjee]

You are right. That is why building a strong Navy is so expensive. So not everyone can afford a strong Navy. Another factor peculiar to the naval assets you have listed above is the long gestation period. From the design phase to induction, it takes long to build these assets. Each of these warships takes many years to construct followed by sea trials etc. A country can have a reasonably good Air force in say 7 or 8 years. But a good and effective navy will take decades to acquire.

 

[monitor]

I think us warship are expensive compare to others due to more labor cost and research and development cost . suppose if you pay a south asian naval engineer a salary of 20000~30000 dollar in their home country that will be enough for them but if you pay them in us yo have to pay 3~5 times so the cost will be increase significantly .

 

[suryakiran]

I think us warship are expensive compare to others due to more labor cost and research and development cost . suppose if you pay a south asian naval engineer a salary of 20000~30000 dollar in their home country that will be enough for them but if you pay them in us yo have to pay 3~5 times so the cost will be increase significantly .

Defenitely Labour cost is a reason, but it is not the only reason for high cost. Their technology is always atleast one step ahead of the rest of the world. And they are having almost everything in their arsenal. For ex, let us say Germany is good in making submarines, Russia is making excellent fighter aircrafts and missiles, Israel produce advanced electronics. And USA makes all of them with great technology and induct them in good quality and quantity. So, more advanced and diversified R&D also makes it even more expensive.

 

[VCheng]

Ships are only a small part of the overall costs of a global blue-water navy.

Personnel, facillities and running costs over the lifetime of any ship (or regional fleet) are many times the acquisition costs of the hardware.