USAF Tests Radar Guiding System For B61-12 Nuclear Bomb

U.S. Air Force personnel load a B61-12 Joint Test Assembly on a B-2 on June 13 at Whiteman AFB, Missouri.
Credit: U.S. Air Force
The U.S. Air Force recently tested releasing the new B61-12 nuclear bomb using a radar-aided system to guide the weapon in a GPS-degraded environment, the service said. It was also the first time the new Joint Test Assembly (JTA) of the B61-12 was released. A Northrop Grumman B-2 released the B61-12...
Brian Everstine

Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining Aviation Week in August 2021, he covered the Pentagon for Air Force Magazine. Brian began covering defense aviation in 2011 as a reporter for Military Times.

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