A Star Destroyer Will Cost $636 Billion to Build the Parts on Earth, Plus $44.4 Trillion to Get It All off Earth and to Mars. at That Launch Cost, It's...
A Star Destroyer will cost $636 billion to build the parts on Earth, plus $44.4 trillion to get it all off Earth and to Mars. At that launch cost, it's definitely worth investing in asteroid mining and refining technologies first.
How much would a Star Wars ship cost?
Since those aircraft carriers cost around 10.44 billion each, a Star Destroyer would cost an estimated $464 billion. And that's the cost for Star Destroyers that can't really do anything: no turbolasers, no engines, not even any electricity. It's those extra costs that bump the total cost up to $636 billion.
As a result, the DD(X) is now expected to displace more than 14,000 tons and by the navy's estimate, cost almost $3.3 billion each. Originally, the navy proposed building 32 next-generation destroyers, reduced that to 24, then to 7, and finally to 3, in order to make the program affordable.
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