"This UAV 20... if it really gets approved, they'll have to bring down the price of the TP-25 too."
Dou Ping muttered to himself. By now, the ground crew on the runway had already removed the power carts and the heating de-icing equipment. The UAV 20 had to take off quickly, otherwise ice would form on the surface of the aircraft.
The TP-25 engines were still very expensive. If it was just the ramjet-fanjet part, the maximum 11-ton class usually costs about ten million to produce, and the selling price is over twenty million; however, a 25-ton thrust methane aerospike engine is cheaper, costing only one or two million.
But when these two parts are combined, the military gets a price list of one TP25 unit at 130 million yuan each.
The bare cost of the TP-25 is not high. Internal statistics from New Yuan believed that after mass production, each unit would cost only about 25 million, with a normal quote of 50 million being sufficient.
