The Air Force is working... The Air Force is working with Boeing to sustain and improve an advanced variant of the B61 air-dropped nuclear bomb, engineered to give pilots much-expanded attack ...

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and Pantex Deterrence LLC (PXD), the manager and operator of the Pantex Plant outside of Amarillo, announced Tuesday the completion of the last ...

The United States Completes Modernization of the B61-12 Nuclear Bomb With capacities ranging from 0.3 to 1,200 kilotons, these bombs represent both a technological advancement and a historical ...

The warplane-dropped nuclear gravity bomb known as the B61 has been fully modernized with a new precision guidance system, the Energy Department’s National Nuclear Security Administration ...

NNSA will transition to producing the B61-13 bomb.” The B61-13, announced in October 2023, is designed to have a higher-yield in the range of a 360 kiloton blast, which would represent a major ...

However, according to reports, its not yet known whether the US has deployed the B61-12 nuclear bomb at NATO bases in Europe or if the deployment is still being processed. This B61-12 nuclear bomb ...

the bomb’s versatility strengthens America’s extended nuclear deterrent. In December 2022, the National Nuclear Security Administration confirmed the forward placement had begun. By the following year ...