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Sandia National Laboratories Confirm B61-12's Production Completion and Switch to Sustainment
Sandia National Laboratories will produce spare components until 2026, which it targets for the final closeout activities, ...
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America’s B61 Nuclear Gravity Bomb Is Getting an Upgrade
Gertz quotes an additional snippet from NNSA which states that “The B61 family of bombs has over 50 years of service, making it the oldest and most versatile weapon in the enduring U.S. nuclear ...
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Why the US has nukes in Turkey — and why it’s so hard to remove them
A B-61 nuclear bomb at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona(Flickr/Kelly Michals) Sign up for Task & Purpose Today to get the latest in military news each morning, and The Pentagon ...
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US B61-12 nukes may lower threshold of using nuclear weapons, diplomat says
MOSCOW, August 29. /TASS/. The B61-12, a US nuclear bomb, when authorized for service, may lower the threshold of using nuclear weapons, Director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Non ...
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The Air Force just hit a major milestone with the US military's upgraded, highly precise nuclear bomb
The B61-12 is the latest version of the B61 nuclear weapon that was introduced in the 1960s. The program is supposed to supplant four B61 variants - B61-3, B61-4, B61-7, and B61-10 - by ...
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Pentagon officially certifies F-35A fighter to carry nuclear bomb — Breaking Defense
The first production unit of the upgraded B61 nuclear bomb, which entered into service back in 1968, rolled out in November 2021. It will replace "three of the four existing variants of the B61 ...
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Ministers urged to clarify nuclear deployment
The NNSA is the US government agency that maintains the nuclear weapons stockpile. The B61-12 is a thermonuclear bomb which can be carried by F-35A Lightning II aircraft, which are stationed at ...