Shouldn't aircrafts also deserves AIM-9X since some SPAAs already have them in game?

[MiGoon_Fox-3]

There’s no real point most of the time anyways.
You’re better off just sticking with one type and working with that

[tripod2008]

It’s once converted to a similar currency and account for year over year inflation, it creeps up a little.

The AIM-120 'AMRAAM' - History, Design, Performance & Discussion

How expensive was it? As listed on PDF page #131 the average cost of a AIM-9X Block 1 AUR (1289 AUR produced) in 2017 dollars was ~$282,000 across all produced lots + excised options for the USN between ~2003~2017. The Block II (“-9-2”) are ~400k per AUR, and “Block II+”(“-9-3”) had not entered full scale production so were not yet spun up at the time. Don’t read French; but (source) claims that 840 (370 EM + 470 IR) AUR were ?produced / planned? for 1,815,000,000 Euro; so 1,815,000,000/840…

[vizender]

The French source has some issues :

• it’s considering the entire program cost, not the product cost of the missiles
• it’s only considering the purchases up to 2013. The missile is still in production up to today (tho, probably under the new MICA NG standard since it’s due to enter service very soon)
  These 2 factors artificially inflate the « production » price that you are comparing to the Aim9X. Of course, the Aim9X, being so vastly produced, will have a lower portion of the price of each missiles be of the « development cost ».

Many French media are claiming a current unit cost of 600-1000K euros, some claiming the 600K euros as a DGA value, but I honestly can’t find the original document for that

[tripod2008]

@vizender

it’s considering the entire program cost, not the product cost of the missiles

That’s how you figure out how much an AUR costs, it includes a fraction of the money spent on R&D

@vizender

it’s only considering the purchases up to 2013

The -9X was only purchased by the USN in lots between '03 & '17, so it also has a fixed timeframe. It’s still procured by FMS clients and existing Sidewinders can be turned in for some quantity of FMS credits, which count towards offsetting Defense Spending allotments that the US makes (Often FMA Funds are transfer to a virtual account, that can only be spent on US offerings so it remains within the US MIC ecosystem).

@vizender

The missile is still in production up to today (tho, probably under the new MICA NG standard since it’s due to enter service very soon)

Similarly the AIM-9X also has later subvariants that are priced differently. Technically the cutting edge service missile is the “-9X-2”, where the -3 & -4 implement changes that fix issues with parts obsolescence & reliability. Which were tabulated in the linked comment.

@vizender

the Aim9X, being so vastly produced, will have a lower portion of the price of each missiles be of the « development cost ».

Which is the entire advantage of retaining the Sidewinder airframe instead of a clean sheet design, which is not something that will apear in War Thunder, even if all eligible airframe were conferred access. There is still a massive gulf in actual performance considering the baseline missile shares the motor with the -9M; so we’ve seen how it performs at range.

I doubt that the US Tree would be arbitrarily conferred the, AIM-95, AIM-132 (ASRAAM) or AIM-2000(IRIS-T) either. So it’s not an option for the most part

@vizender

Many French media are claiming a current unit cost of 600-1000K euros, some claiming the 600K euros as a DGA value, but I honestly can’t find the original document for that

It’s likely the cost of materials and labor for an additional AUR, without factoring in the cost of R&D as it’s already been recouped Which would be relevant for newly ordered missile Lots.