Sandia National Laboratories: Flight Tests Show B61-12 Compatible With F-15E Strike Eagle
June 09, 2020
June 09, 2020
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, June 9 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release:
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-foot puff of desert dust from the designated impact area at Sandia National Laboratories' Tonopah Test Range in Nevada.
That strike was the last in a ser . . .
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-foot puff of desert dust from the designated impact area at Sandia National Laboratories' Tonopah Test Range in Nevada.
That strike was the last in a ser . . .