When we talk about scaling the production of conventional supersonic and sub-sonic missiles, we need to consider the costs and supply chain issues. Pakistani missile making entities are operating under severe sanctions. The front companies made to procure the materials and equipment are quickly identified and sanctioned by America.
So the materials from black-market or from china would come at a steep cost and we'd be paying high premium on it. Being a sanctioned entity and how desperate we are.
It'd jackup the price of final/finished product. China which is known for cheap production sold us 50 CM-400 AKG at 1 Million $ a piece. The cost of our missiles, lets say for Fatah-IV, if we think is 500,000 $, think again. It could be 1 million or more because of how we procure things.
America fired more than 850 Missiles in 1 month of war which is 850 - 900 million dollars and that's for one type of subsonic missile . We have Fatah-1, 2 , 3, 4/Babur, SMASH, Taimoor/Ra'ad and not to forget the Babur LACM/Naval versions, Shaheen's, Abdali's and Ababeel's. We don't have that kind of money to produce the conventional missiles at such large scale in given conditions unless we start eating grass again. (GCC funds should be out of question now considering what they going through.)
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