The U.S. Army recently reduced the production numbers of the Excalibur precision-guided projectile from 30,000 to 6,264 projectiles, which caused the program to enter a Nunn-McCurdy unit cost breach.

最近，美陆军将神剑精确制导炮弹的生产数量从30000枚减少到了6264枚，违反了纳恩-麦克柯迪法案。

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The program was halted due to high unit cost of F-22 and delays in Russian and Chinese fifth-generation fighter jet programs.

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For example, when the B-1A program was restarted to produce the B-1B, the per unit cost of the B-1B was three-times higher than the B-1A. Importantly, the B-1B was a modification (albeit a significant one) of the A-model and a gap of just 18 months occurred in the production line.

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