The U.S. Air Force’s new F-22 fighter just got more expensive.

In an effort to save $15 billion, Congress wants to cut production from 277 to 160.

Currently, including the $40 billion development cost, the 277 buy would come to $258 million per aircraft.

Cutting production to 160 would push per aircraft cost to about $370 million.

The F-22 was designed at the end of the Cold War to deal with the next generation of Russian fighters.

But the Soviet Union, and its huge defense industry, disappeared in the 1990s.

Congress are opted to purchase upgraded aircraft costing a tenth of a new F-22.

With the Iraqi war and tightened budgets, the cuts are hard to argue against.