US Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle klaar voor nieuwe B61 Mod 12 nuke (video)
9 June 2020
15:00
F-15E Proves Ready to Fly with New Nuclear Gravity Bomb
The F-15E Strike Eagle is the first Air Force aircraft to prove it is compatible with the refurbished B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb, Sandia National Laboratories announced on June 8.
A Strike Eagle took off from Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., and dropped a mock B61-12 from 25,000 feet in March, hitting the desert floor at Sandia National Laboratories’ Tonopah Test Range 55 seconds later. Officials also conducted a lower-altitude flight test at Tonopah, 160 miles from Nellis. The jet released a mock weapon while flying “nearly at the speed of sound” at about 1,000 feet. The flights marked the last of six flight tests and wrapped up demonstrations with the full weapon system.
