Cost of Kosovo Intervention

Munitions: $400 M/month

• Missiles. Tomahawks are $1 M; a cruise missile refitted with conventional explosives is $2 M. During first three weeks they were used at rate of $9 M per day.
• Bombs. HARM-guided (high-speed antiradiation missile, to knock out antiaircraft defenses) are $ 0.34 a pop (pre-war supply was 900); smart bombs only $ 0.05 M -- about 80 per day. An old dumb bomb can be upgraded to a smart bomb for only $ 0.023 M a bomb.

Personnel: $200 M/month

• Imminent danger pay. Combat soldiers receive an extra $1800-270O per year; reservists and extra $40,000 per year.
• Past experience. Deploying/sustaining an extra 27,000 troops should cost $200 M/month; $300 M if troops in combat.
• Lost of equipment. Impossible to estimate but some items are expensive: Apache helicopter $18 M; Abrams tank $4 M

Aircraft: over $90 M

• Sorties. F-16 sortie costs $6000; F/A-18 $17,000; B-2 bomber 30-hour run from Missouri to Serbia and back is $1.6 M.
• Downed aircraft. F-117A costs $45 M; A-10 $6 M; B-2 $2 B.
• Past experience. A rule of thumb -- 2 aircrafts lost for per 10,000 sorties. Current 400 sorties per day suggests 3 aircraft a month. Lost to date: F-117 (27 March), F-16 (2 May), two Apache helicopter (April & May, in training) and four pilotless "drones."

Everything else, if war expands.

• Aircraft-carriers group at sea would cost $2.8 M/day.
• Relief. Estimate of $ 60 M/month for refugee/relief expenses.
• Peace keeping. Congressional Budget office estimates that 4000 peace-keeping troops in Kosovo would cost $50 M/month.