According to a statement published on November 23, 2020, A mockup B61-12’s strike in the dusty Nevada desert successfully completed the first in a series of flight tests with the U.S. Air Force’s newest fighter jet F-35, demonstrating the B61-12 nuclear bomb’s mockup first release from an internal bomb bay at greater than the speed of sound. Read full Defense Aviation News at this link ...
An F-35A Lightning II opens its bomb bay doors and drops a mockup B61-12 nuclear bomb at Sandia National Laboratories’ Tonopah Test Range. (Picture source Sandia National Laboratories) |
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