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And that's incremental cost. Since they're not building nearly as many B-2s as originally expected the unit cost will end up being something like $2.5 billion/plane.
And Secretary of Defense Gates has called for the ending production of the F-22 after next year's order. The AF is insisting it needs twice as many planes as that would result in them having. So that's a battle that'll be fought by whatever congresscritters are employed by the factories that make the planes.
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