Unit Cost

[mosborne]

Hi:
I have a question on the cost system.
Does the cost vary by the people (level of training) instead of the whole weapon system?

I think already all the weapons are individually costed, including infantry rifles, grenades, etc. So these should be the same cost for the same weapon regardless of country. I suspect that this is how it is now. Likewise similar weapons are costed likewise.

Is the cost only applied to the people and then added to the cost of the weapon itself.

I think in this way, if a poor country wants to buy M1A1, it pays the same price that US would pay for that same hardware. The cost difference will be in the amount of training that goes into the crew that mans that weapon. So if M1A1 cost 200 units, the average crew (70 rating) may cost 100 units, the crew that is 60 rating would cost 80 units, (just for example, I don't know if these are the real numbers). So the price of the tank and crew for Average would be 300. The price for the poor country would be 280.

If poor country wants to use higher experience crew which are the same as average, then they pay 300 for the tank.

I think that regardless of who operates the weapon, it is still capable of doing the same damage. The only thing that has changed is the crew that operates it and from a simplistic point of view the only difference in the crew is the amount of experience they have and level of morale, neither of which is a characteristic of any hardware. So a poor country should not get a discount on the hardware. In fact, the hardware probably cost a poor country more than a developed country, since no country wants to sell its equipment to another country at a cheaper price than what its own military pays.

Thanks