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B61-12 Good To Go On F-15E, Sandia Says

Monday, June 8th, 2020

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B61-12 Good To Go On F-15E, Sandia Says

The B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is building will work with the Boeing [BA]-built F-15E Strike Eagle, the Sandia National Laboratories said last week. “Sandia National Laboratories and the Air Force conducted the full-weapon system demonstration under a full end-to-end test scenario, demonstrating operational crews, representative carriage, release conditions and weapon functionality,” Steven Samuels, a manager with Sandia’s B61-12 system team, said in Thursday's release. “We were able to test the B61-12 through all operational…

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