NEWS+ANALYSIS Give and Take: Losers
F/A-22 Raptor
Cost: $71.8 billion
Cut: $10.5 billion
The Air Force will cut its planned buy of 278 aircraft by about a third.
C-130J cargo aircraft
Cost: $16.5 billion
Cut: $5 billion
The Air Force wants to stop buying the cargo aircraft, designed 51 years ago.
Virginia-class submarine
Cost: $81.8 billion
Cut: $5.3 billion
The Navy will buy only one of the attack submarines in 2009 and 2010; originally it planned to buy two per year.
V-22 Osprey
Cost: $48.3 billion
Cut: $1.3 billion
The Marine Corps' top modernization program would be scaled back by 22 aircraft over six years.
LPD - 17 amphibious ship
Cost: $15.6 billion
Cut: $953 million
The Navy will buy only nine LPD-17s, not the 10 originally planned.
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