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At Least Three-Year Delay Foreseen in Fielding of Smart Fuze for GBU-57

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At Least Three-Year Delay Foreseen in Fielding of Smart Fuze for GBU-57
While the GBU-57 is one successor to the GBU-28, another is the GBU-72. The Air Force said an F-15E from the 96th Test Wing at Eglin AFB, Fla. conducted the first release of a GBU-72, pictured here, in October, 2021 (U.S. Air Force Photo)

The U.S. Air Force has delayed by at least three years the fielding date of a smart fuze for the Boeing [BA] GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP)--a 20-foot, 30,000-pound munition to destroy hard and deeply buried targets (HDBTs) such as bunkers and tunnels. In fiscal 2022, "the Air Force conducted three full-scale performance tests of the Large Penetrator Smart Fuze (LPSF) integrated into the MOP and began subscale lethality testing," per the DoD Directorate of Operational Testing and Evaluation (DOT&E)…

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