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Li Qinwu asked,
"How much value would it cost to manufacture this Heavy Power Armor? How cost-effective is it?"
Iron Skull Archmagos said,
"With the factories you currently possess operating at full capacity to produce Heavy Power Armor, you could probably manufacture one unit every three days.
Its cost is roughly 80% of a Leman Russ tank's. Of course, that is because your Nuclear Industrial Chain is incomplete, leaving you unable to produce power packs yourself.
If you can make up for the shortcomings in your Nuclear Industrial Chain, the cost can be reduced to half that of a Leman Russ tank!
As for combat effectiveness, based on my comprehensive analysis, an ordinary human who has undergone Dual-Track Neural Augmentation surgery and uses this Heavy Power Armor will possess roughly 70% of an Astartes warrior's combat efficiency!"
At Li Qinwu's current level, he did not really need to consider costs too heavily when procuring equipment for his forces.
Once an equipment production line had been built, it could simply remain operational and keep producing indefinitely.
He was not going to fight the kind of massive war of attrition involving hundreds of millions, billions, or even tens of billions of people, so there was no need to worry excessively about cost-effectiveness.
He simply wanted to equip his private troops with the best gear. Besides, most of the time, they were not even fighting.
No battles meant no consumption, and there was no need to worry about precious equipment being lost.
This domestically developed, manufactured, and supplied Heavy Power Armor for ordinary humans was worth nearly as much as a Leman Russ tank. It was certainly expensive.
But combat effectiveness approaching 70% of an Astartes's was enough to