How much did a Grand Slam bomb cost?

[Crimea_River]

The question was asked by a visitor to a local museum and the staff are stumped. Anyone know?

 

[Snautzer01]

Edit Not the right article.

 

[Crimea_River]

Thanks for that. There would have been costs incurred to develop the bomb, an example of which you have noted. However the question had to due with the production cost each bomb.

 

[GTX]

According to here, a Grand Slam cost approx £950.00 in 1945. Using The Bank of England Inflation calculator this equates to approx £28,627.85 today.

 

[Crimea_River]

GTX thanks for that. Very interesting. The document confirms that " the existing data makes it hard to identify accurately the precise cost of particular bombs during the war" but uses the figure noted in your post sourced from a report by Harris. The figure seems low to me but is nonetheless the only one that seems to be available. Thanks again.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

I had thought they cost quite a bit more due to the care required to manufacture their casings.

 

[GTX]

To give some context, reportedly an AVRO Lancaster cost ~£45,000.00 during the war

 

[Barrett]

As the RAFish chaps would say, "Pukka gen" including the linked survey of bombing cost.

 

[Crimea_River]

Deleted.

 

[Snautzer01]

The torpex factory did cost 100 mil. https://www.google.com/amp/s/milita...e-known-as-rdx-helped-the-allies-win-ww2/amp/

 

[JDCAVE]

It was most likely the most costly conventional bomb of the war. Unless upkeep was more.

The research and development of upkeep was probably (guessing here) more costly than the Grand Slam.

Jim

 

[JDCAVE]

The torpex factory did cost 100 mil. https://www.google.com/amp/s/milita...e-known-as-rdx-helped-the-allies-win-ww2/amp/

Hmmm! This article loses all of its credibility with the Figure caption under the Mosquito with the “cookie”!

More correct. Not RDX at all. TNT and Aluminum.

Tritonal - Wikipedia

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I stopped reading after that!