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- GRAPEVINE, Page 15The Pentagon's Porsche
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- By JANICE CASTRO
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- Some folks say the B-2 STEALTH BOMBER is worth its weight
- in gold, but that's not true: it is now worth three times that,
- thanks to defense cutbacks. The Air Force says the aircraft
- cost $44.4 billion to develop. The Pentagon originally planned
- to build about 130 but has scaled its orders back to 20, or a
- cool $2.2 billion apiece. And costs may rise, since the Air
- Force is having trouble getting the much vaunted Stealth
- radar-evading technology to work properly.
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