Business Insider/The Aviationist: Here's what it sounds like when a B-2 stealth bomber drops an inert nuke during a test over Nevada
* The B61-12 is the latest upgrade to the B61 serious of nuclear gravity bombs.
* The Air Force and the Department of Energy tested the new version twice last year, dropping them over Nevada.
Last year, the US Air Force and the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) carried out two non-nuclear system qualification flight tests of the B61-12 gravity bomb.
The tests, completed on June 9, 2018, at Tonopah Test Range in Nevada, were part of the B61-12 represent the latest LEP (Life-Extention Program) upgrade to the B61 line of nuclear weapons that has already been extensively tested with the F-15E Strike Eagles (in 2015) and F-16 of the 422nd Test and Evaluation Squadron (in 2017).
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1 comment:
B-52, not a B2.
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