[dash2]

In addition you have to think of the trade-offs. If the army multiplied the price by 10 to get 10% better performance, that might save a soldier’s life.

Hmm, shades of Kipling‘s Frontier Arithmetic: “four thousand pounds of education/Drops to a ten-rupee jezail”....

[simonh]

That’s based on the value of the whole contract, which will include the costs of participating in trials, demonstrations, training, lifetime service and spare parts. There are likely to be a whole team of personnel dedicated full time to the contract for years, all included.