The footage shows the recent F-35A Full Weapon System Demonstration (FWSD) with two B61-12 mock nuclear bombs. As we have already reported in detail recently, the F-35 Joint Program Office has ...

The Air Force is test-dropping an upgraded, multi-function B61-12 nuclear bomb which improves accuracy, integrates various attack options into a single bomb and changes the strategic landscape with ...

Two Lockheed Martin F-35A stealth fighters recently dropped inert B61-12 nuclear gravity bombs over Tonopah Test Range in Nevada as part of the aircraft type’s first full weapon system demonstration.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Dropped from above 25,000 feet, the mock B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb was in the air for approximately 55 seconds before hitting and embedding in the lakebed, splashing a 40- to 50 ...

Credit: Air Force F-15 Strike Eagle drops an unarmed B61-12 during a guided test vehicle flight test by 40th Flight Test Squadron at Eglin AFB, Florida, in July 2015: U.S. Air Force The U.S. Air Force ...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (UPI) --The National Nuclear Security Administration has authorized the production engineering phase for its B61-12 warhead life extension program, the administration announced ...

Investigators sent a mock B61-12 nuclear weapon speeding down the labs’ 10,000-foot rocket sled track to slam nose-first into a steel and concrete wall in a spectacular test that mimicked a high-speed ...

A series of flight tests have shown that the B61-12 nuclear bomb is compatible with the Boeing F-15E Strike Eagle. The demonstrations, carried out with a mock weapon, come ahead of the fighter being ...