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yamato2cz

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I found few sources for WW2 tanks and other land equipment, but not so much for planes or ships, let alone helicopters or early/late cold war equipment. Monetary cost of the equipment is easier to find, but its pretty hard to come up with reasonable man-hour cost from monetary cost.

Reason for search-Comparing Hearts of Iron 4 production costs. Also im making a mod and i can only eyeball the cost, but for some equipment like flyers or ships i just dont have enough knowledge.

example:

Figures taken from Table E5, Harrison, Accounting for War, Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Year/hours worked per unit of output

Pe-2 bomber: 41/25300, 43/13200
Il-4 bomber: 41/20000, 43/12500
Il-2 fighter-bomber: 41/9500, 43/5900
KV heavy tank: 41/14600, 43/7200
T-34: 41/8000, 43/3700
152mm howitzer: 41/4500, 43/2400 or alternatively 41/4370, 44/3170, 45/3128
divisional gun [unspecified]: 41/2200, 43/600
76mm regimental gun: 41/1200, 43/800
large-calibre machine gun [unspecified]: 41/642, 43/329
rifle [unspecified]: 41/12, 43/9
TT cartridge (per 1000): 41/13, 43/10.8 or alternatively 41/11.4, 42/11.5, 44/10.6, 45/9.7
 
The Cold War era was never a total war situation where maximum production was critical and millions of soldiers were mobilized to foreign lands. Tracking man hours of labor was never critical for either side, and would have varied greatly over the years and at different plants even for the same items at the same time. Costs on the other hand are always relevant.