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Bomb Prices

The following is a list of bombs used during the 1991 gulf war describing the type of device used, quantity, unit price and the total price for that group. All prices are in US Dollars.

Description Qty Cost $ Total $
Unguided Iron Bombs
Mk-82 5001b High Explosive 69,701 498 34,711,098
Mk-83 1000lb High Explosive 19,018 1,000 19,018,000
M-l 17 7501b Demolition 43,435 253 10,989,055
CBU-52/58/71 Fragmentation 17,831 2,159 38,497,129
CBU-87 Combined Effects 10,035 13,941 139,897,935
Mk-20 Rockeye II 27,987 3,449 96,527,163
CBU-78 Gator Antitank 209 39,963 8,352,867
Total Unguided Bombs
(including some not listed) 210,004
$431,960,550
Guided Bombs
GBU-10 Laser 20001b 2,637 22,000 58,014,000
GBU-12 Laser 5001b 4,493 9,000 40,437,000
GBU-15 EO-IR 20001b 71 227,600 16,159,600
GBU-16 Laser 1000lb 219 150,000 32,850,000
GBU-24 Laser 20001b 284 65,000 18,460,000
GBU-24 Laser/BLU-109 20001b 897 85,000 76,245,000
GBU-27 Laser/BLU-109 20001b 739 75,539 55,823,321
GBU-28 Laser 40001b 2 100,000 200,000
Total Guided Bombs
(including a few not listed here) 9,342
$298,188,921
Guided Missiles
Anti Radar Missiles (ARM)
AGM-45 Shrike 78 89,000 6,942,000
AGM-88 HARM 1,961 257,000 503,977,000
Air-to-Surface Guided Missiles
AGM-132A Skipper II 12 31,240 374,880
AGM-62B Walleye II 133 71,000 9,310,000
AGM-65B Maverick (EO) 1,673 64,100 107,239,300
AGM-65C Maverick 5 110,000 550,000
AGM-65D Maverick (IR) 3,405 111,000 377,955,000
AGM-65E Maverick (Laser) 36 101,000 3,636,000
AGM-65G Maverick (IR) 177 269,000 47,613,000
AGM-84E SLAM 7 346,000 2,422,000
Air-to-Air Missiles
AIM-7M 88 225,700 19,861,600
AIM-9M 86 70,600 6,071,600

There were also 333 cruise missiles used, costing a total of $330 million. Army helicopters fired 482 Hellfire and TOW antitank missiles costing $11.1 million. The total cost of all bombs and missiles used was $2.2 billion. Some 90 percent of the items dropped were unguided bombs, and these accounted for only about 20 percent of the cost of all items dropped. The average cost of an unguided bomb was $2,057, while the average cost of a guided bomb was $31,918, or about fifteen times more expensive.

Despite the success of guided bombs and all-weather fighter-bombers, there is still a reluctance to buy a lot of them for a future war. Although it takes twelve to twenty times as many old-fashioned "dumb" bombs to hit a target as it does when using guided ("smart") bombs, some 95 percent of the U.S. bomb inventory still consists of dumb bombs. Current plans call for only having 30 percent of fighter-bombers capable of using smart bombs. The explanation given is that there is not enough money to do everything.

  

 

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