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Delayed Explosives Order Means Delay for LRSO Warhead, GAO Says

Delayed Explosives Order Means Delay for LRSO Warhead, GAO Says
The Air Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM) is the predecessor to the eventual Long Range Standoff (LRSO) weapon. Photo: Air Force.

Late delivery of high explosives to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will delay by “at 2 two months” the National Nuclear Security Administration’s W80-4 program to refurbish an old warhead for a next-generation air-launched cruise missile, the Government Accountability Office reported Monday. Livermore, which leads the W80-4 life-extension program, needs the high explosives for a hydrodynamic test intended to prove out computer simulations about how the refurbished warhead would behave during detonation, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) wrote. The Holsten…

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