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I tried digging up US pre-war costs for a standard 155mm HE shell, earlier in the year, and found numbers online that were in the high $800 range. This is five times that. The munitions manufacturers are making bank on their pricing.
EDIT: Well, okay. Some of that could also be reduced efficiency, maybe due to reduced economy of scale; there are a number of manufacturers in Europe picking up the contracts. I don't know what a typical pre-war shell price was in Europe.
And some of it is gonna be that a lot of capital goods used in production, machines and the like, were paid for way back. The new shells are gonna need new machinery and such.
It is a lot more expensive, though.
Sounds like you're doing the math assuming 100k shells, which means these numbers are way off. You should check the other comment.
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Here's an earlier Rheinmetall contract from late last year.
https://en.defence-ua.com/analysis/how_much_155mm_ammunition_costs_now_an_example_of_the_rheinmetall_contract_for_10000_shells-5178.html
The price per shell there is in the same ballpark as the numbers the article here lists.
According to that article, about an anonymous customer with a much smaller order, they're about 65% more expensive. Not even close to what you claimed.
So... is this Kremlin propaganda or what?
The first order was given as 3300 euros per shell, the second 4000 euros per shell.
If you have numbers that show lower prices, I'd be interested in seeing them. So far, you've simply asserted that you think that the price surely must be lower than what's in the articles.
EDIT:
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-urges-eu-ministers-back-joint-ammunition-buying-plan-2023-03-08/
That'd be β¬4000/shell, which again is in line with the above numbers.