FN M4A 1 can only be sold for $642.
M 16A4 with 20-inch barrel is slightly more expensive.
A medium-priced American civil AR 15.
Speaking of cost, the mass production cost of M4 and AK is between $200 and $300. M4 manufacturing needs forging aluminum and numerical control, and these service lives are in hundreds of thousands of cycles, which can be attributed to the excellent processability and low depreciation rate of aviation aluminum. M4 can be made of hand drill, aluminum block and steel block. Without technology, it is enough to use milling machines and lathes safely. AK doesn't need these, it needs many complete industrial facilities. If the Soviet Union hadn't provided assistance and trained talents, AK would still be extremely expensive. AK material cost is low, but the equipment life is short and the total cost is high, and the latter is a relatively high cost factor in gun manufacturing. Again, things are rare. Because it is difficult for small workshops to produce AK sets and automata, the Soviet Union made the choice of manufacturing AK before the start of nuclear war and authorized a large number of other countries to manufacture it. The most common of these rifles are AK47 and AKM. Among them, the AK47 1 model can hardly be used, the life of the punching box is short, and the AK47 2 model is extremely expensive, so the steel milling box is used. At present, steel milling boxes can only be seen on high-grade goods such as AS VAL and VSS. Of course, these rifles are not cheap, not to mention the AK47 2 model more than ten years ago. Converting gold into current dollars, the AK47 2 model is about 2000 dollars. The cost of model AK47 3 has been reduced a lot, and now it is very similar to AK. The lowest AK cost is AKM produced by 1959- 1962. Its cost is 300 dollars. In the future, it will be AK74, a small caliber barrel, which is already at the same price as AR at that time. With the development of the industry, the original high-cost part of AK has been difficult to improve, while the cost of AR has indeed dropped. After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, AK was mostly used by Russia with tight economy to earn foreign exchange. All AK's in the warehouse are on sale. I don't care if the price is higher than the cost. 56 Chong made in China is also sold abroad to earn foreign exchange. AK is mostly used by Russia with tight economy to earn foreign exchange, and at the same time, it is difficult to investigate AK's movements. All AK's in the warehouse are on sale. I don't care if the price is higher than the cost. 56 Chong made in China is also sold abroad to earn foreign exchange. Now AK has spread all over the world, and all parts are available. Those joints and BCG that are difficult to manufacture can be easily bought and assembled with other self-made parts to become an AK. Most of the AR in the United States has been destroyed, and it is difficult to find AR parts in foreign markets. So, even if you can make your own AR boxes and automatons, you can't buy a barrel. Instead, you can make your own AK butt and shell, buy a barrel and assemble it into AK. This is why AK is so popular in war-torn areas. It's not that AK is much better and cheaper than M4. If a poor country is determined to become a world power (with air force) and decides to use AK or M4 as its own rifle, start from scratch.
Look up NSN and you will know that FN M4A 1 642 dollars for military use and 673 dollars for Remington. As for the cost, the cost of industrial mass production itself is unimaginable. If Colt told the US government that "my M4A 1 cost $400, but it can be sold for more than $200", I'm afraid there will be no orders in the future.
FN M4A 1 can only be sold for $642.
A 20-inch bucket is a little more expensive.
I wonder where did M4A 1 spend $800-1200 come from? If each gun loses at least $349,438+0, it is good that this gun factory can survive 1 month without going bankrupt.
In addition, PSA AR 15 with 16 inch barrel manufactured by the whole army only costs 449.99 dollars, and the barrel is longer than M4A 1 14.5 inch barrel. You know, the barrel is almost the most expensive place on the rifle, and other places such as the case are cheaper than its 1/5. The barrel is shorter and the technology is the same, so the gun is much cheaper. M4A 1, which is also a military standard AR, has a shorter barrel than PSA AR 15, so the cost is definitely lower than PSA AR 15.
A medium-priced American civil AR 15.
This rifle is the one in the example.
Speaking of cost, the mass production cost of M4 and AK is between $200 and $300. M4 manufacturing needs forging aluminum and numerical control. The service life of these equipments is hundreds of thousands of times, which can be attributed to the excellent processability and low depreciation rate of aviation aluminum. M4 can be made of hand drill, aluminum block and steel block. Without technology, it is enough to use milling machines and lathes safely. AK doesn't need these, it needs many complete industrial facilities. If the Soviet Union hadn't provided assistance and trained talents, AK would still be extremely expensive. AK material cost is low, but the equipment life is short and the total cost is high, and the latter is a relatively high cost factor in gun manufacturing. Again, things are rare. Because it is difficult for small workshops to produce AK sets and automata, the Soviet Union made the choice of manufacturing AK before the start of nuclear war and authorized a large number of other countries to manufacture it. The most common of these rifles are AK47 and AKM. Among them, the AK47 1 model can hardly be used, the life of the punching box is short, and the AK47 2 model is extremely expensive, so the steel milling box is used. At present, steel milling boxes can only be seen on high-grade goods such as AS VAL and VSS. Of course, these rifles are not cheap, not to mention the AK47 2 model more than ten years ago. Converting gold into current dollars, the AK47 2 model is about 2000 dollars. The cost of model AK47 3 has been reduced a lot, and now it is very similar to AK. The lowest AK cost is AKM produced by 1959- 1962. Its cost is 300 dollars. In the future, it will be AK74, a small caliber barrel, which is already at the same price as AR at that time. With the development of the industry, the original high-cost part of AK has been difficult to improve, while the cost of AR has indeed dropped. After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, AK was mostly used by Russia with tight economy to earn foreign exchange. At the same time, the disintegration of political chaos makes it difficult to investigate the trend of the Justice and Development Party. All AK's in the warehouse are on sale. I don't care if the price is higher than the cost. 56 Chong made in China is also sold abroad to earn foreign exchange. Now AK has spread all over the world, and all parts are available. Those joints and BCG that are difficult to manufacture can be easily bought and assembled with other self-made parts to become an AK. Most of the AR in the United States has been destroyed, and it is difficult to find AR parts in foreign markets. So, even if you can make your own AR boxes and automatons, you can't buy a barrel. Instead, you can make your own AK butt and shell, buy a barrel and assemble it into AK. This is why AK is so popular in war-torn areas. It's not that AK is much better and cheaper than M4. If a poor country is determined to become a world power (with an air force) and decides to use AK or M4 as its own rifle, build a production line from scratch and buy machines, they will find that the cost of producing M4 is much lower than that of producing AK. As for the market price, it depends on where it is. M4A 1 on the black market in China may sell for 654.38+million RMB, while AK in war-torn areas may only cost 100 USD.