
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)…