The Pentagon says it wants a higher-yield nuclear-gravity bomb based on the B61-12 design. The stated purpose of the B61-13 would be to offer more capability against especially hardened facilities, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The B61-12 nuclear bomb is now officially in the U.S. stockpile and approved for employment from the B-2A Spirit stealth bomber.

It appears that the upcoming B-21 Raider will be the primary platform armed with the B61-13 nuclear bomb. In the twenty-first century, we read and hear all too often about promising defense ...

The B61 bomb’s reported yield will be adjustable to between 0.3 and 50 kilotons. A kiloton is the equivalent of 1,000 tons of TNT. Although not possessing the long-distance standoff capacity of either ...

The US delivered its first B61-13 nuclear bomb nearly a year early. With enhanced yield and precision, it modernizes a key part of the nuclear triad amid rising global tensions. The United States ...

The Lightning II gets one step closer to become the next Air Force aircraft, and first 5th Generation platform, to achieve compatibility with the refurbished B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb. The F-35 ...

The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) announced the completion of the first B61-13 gravity bomb Monday. The keynote address took place at the Pantex Plant in ...

Amid the dynamic geopolitical situation in the world, the United States has announced its wish to build a nuclear bomb that will be at least 24 times more powerful than one of the bombs dropped on ...

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 ...

The B61-12 adds substantial new levels of precision targeting and consolidates several different kinds of attack options into a single weapon. Instead of needing separate variants of the weapon for ...