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Consider the inflation-adjusted prices [2021] of a $4.79M PB4Y-1 & the $69.4M Fletcher class destroyer bought in 1943.
Today, the flyaway cost of a P-8A is $171.6M compared to the $1.48B cost of an Arleigh Burke class DDG.
(Endnote in "Airborne ASW" by Michael Glenn)
For those of you interested in the F-111B and other rare US carrier aircraft and rare facts about carrier aircraft (particularly Cold War Era)...
Tommy Thomason's Tailhook Topics is a rabbit hole worthy...
However, you've been WARNED!
https://t.co/SrAuDUda8B
A Visual History of Inflight Refueling: (since I had the honor of being a part of it in the Viking :o)