Wednesday, December 11, 2019

America's Nuclear Triad Got Deadlier

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National Interest: An Air Force B-2 Just Tested A New Bomb, And America's Nuclear Triad Got Deadlier

A long-planned upgrade to America's air leg has finally arrived.

Key point: The B61 Mod 12 is engineered with a special “Tail Subassembly” to give the bomb increased accuracy.

The Air Force’s B-2 Stealth bomber has test-dropped an upgraded, multi-function B61-12 nuclear bomb which improves accuracy, integrates various attack options into a single bomb and changes the strategic landscape with regard to nuclear weapons mission possibilities.

Earlier this summer, the Air Force dropped a B61-12 nuclear weapon from a B-2 at Nellis AFB, marking a new developmental flight test phase for the upgraded bomb, Air Force spokeswoman Capt. Hope Cronin told Warrior Maven earlier this year.

“The updated weapon will include improved safety, security and reliability,” Cronin said.

Read more ....

WNU Editor: Nuclear weapons are not cheap .... America’s nuclear weapons will cost $1.2 trillion over the next 30 years (Defense News).

4 comments:

RussInSoCal said...

Lower altitude deploy. Higher drag Lower yield. Get away.


LESS,
IS,
MORE,

R,

Anonymous said...

Did DARPA invent a new 'tater peeler?

CHUDS, what's the best way to avoid KP duty?

Anonymous said...

With " tater peeler and KP" Mr. Originality strikes again! Lololololo, don't stop, please!

Anonymous said...

Meanwhile

College student, 18, is beaten and stabbed to death in mugging by 'group of thugs' while walking in park near her Manhattan campus


You cannot go out 5:30 PM at your college campus in NYC without registered Democrats mugging, beating, stabbing, raping you or something.

Democrat occupied New York. Prison Warden de Blasio presiding