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Boeing Cleared to Start Production of Tail Kit for B61-12 Gravity Bomb

Monday, December 10th, 2018

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Boeing Cleared to Start Production of Tail Kit for B61-12 Gravity Bomb

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Air Force contractor Boeing [BA] is clear to start production on crucial hardware for the B61-12 next-generation nuclear gravity bomb, which is scheduled to be built in 2020, the service said recently.Boeing’s tail-kit cleared Milestone C — which in Pentagon program management precedes a project’s construction phase — in late October, the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center at the Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico wrote in a press release Friday. The service has already tested the design in…

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