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United States Successfully Tests New Nuclear Gravity Bomb.
IWB ^ | Pamela Williams

Posted on 04/15/2017 5:23:12 AM PDT by davikkm

As the world’s attention was on the first combat use of the conventional “Mother Of All Bombs,” the US National Nuclear Security Administration announced the successful field test of the modernized gravity nuclear bomb in Nevada.

The NNSA and the US Air Force completed the first qualification flight test of the B61-12 gravity nuclear bomb on March 14 at the Tonopah Test Range in Nevada, the agency announced on Thursday.

It seems the Trump Administration is very secretive about what it has planned, and that is the way militarily it should be. I don’t think anyone saw this coming.

The test was intended to evaluate the weapon’s “non-nuclear functions” and the capability of the F-16 fighter to successfully deploy the bomb. An F-16 fighter from Nellis Air Force Base dropped the “non-nuclear test assembly,” the NNSA said in a statement.

“The successful test provides critical qualification data to validate that the baseline design meets military requirements,” said Brigadier General Michael Lutton, NNSA’s principal assistant deputy administrator for military application. The NNSA is part of the Department of Energy, which is charged with managing US nuclear weapons.

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1 posted on 04/15/2017 5:23:12 AM PDT by davikkm
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To: davikkm
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No.

You can post the whole thing right here.

No hits for you.

2 posted on 04/15/2017 5:30:51 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: davikkm

I thought the headline said “United Airlines Tests New Bomb”


3 posted on 04/15/2017 5:32:16 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (I don't want better government; I want much less of it.)
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To: davikkm

Are we going to credit Trump for this? Is it a 90 day wonder weapon or just a normal development that has been in the works for a couple of years? If Obama was still president he would have been praised for it, now they’ll say Trump is a war monger looking for a war. Little nukes are nothing new, we’ve had them since the 50’s. The Davey Crockett comes to mind. Lets see how the MSM portrays this earth shaking news. LOL.


4 posted on 04/15/2017 5:34:02 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (Again it disapeared? Damn cursor is in cahoots with the tag line.)
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To: humblegunner

I WANT to go to his website.

You are just, sometimes, not nice.

Have a beer and chill-out!


5 posted on 04/15/2017 5:36:44 AM PDT by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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To: davikkm

Because Humblegunner whined, I gave you a hit.

Wake me when we have an anti-gravity nuclear device.


6 posted on 04/15/2017 5:45:06 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (It's not gun violence, it's thug violence)
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To: VeniVidiVici

Same here.


7 posted on 04/15/2017 5:49:43 AM PDT by Slyfox (Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
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To: davikkm
I can already hear the liberals squealing with agony!!

Lets test this on Kim Jong Un. He wants a war so bad we'll give him one. The shortest war ever.

8 posted on 04/15/2017 5:50:35 AM PDT by mainestategop (DonÂ’t Let Freedom Slip Away! After America , There is No Place to Go)
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To: Bringbackthedraft
Is it a 90 day wonder weapon or just a normal development that has been in the works for a couple of years?

I know a guy who works on the B61 at Sandia National Lab. When he signed on he said he's be employed until his grandchildren were through college.

9 posted on 04/15/2017 5:53:51 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Slyfox

Ditto.


10 posted on 04/15/2017 6:02:53 AM PDT by x1stcav (Leftism is like rust: It corrodes 24 hours a day until eradicated.)
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To: x1stcav

And one more time for good measure.


11 posted on 04/15/2017 6:09:21 AM PDT by Slyfox (Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
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To: davikkm

Forgive my ignorance, but what is a “gravity” nuclear bomb? Drop one from an airplane and gravity does the rest. I thought all nuclear bombs were “gravity” bombs.


12 posted on 04/15/2017 6:10:32 AM PDT by sasportas
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To: davikkm

I appreciate the post. Because not-so-humble gunner acted like a liberal, I read the blog.
Thank You!


13 posted on 04/15/2017 6:14:11 AM PDT by esopman (Blessings on Freepers Everywhere and Their Most Intelligent Designer)
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To: x1stcav

Another theory? Fake news (propaganda) to keep everyone guessing, “Is it true?”


14 posted on 04/15/2017 6:16:27 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: DaveA37

Reading it didn’t make a lot of sense to me. Is it a conventional version of a standard nuke, ie casing filled with TNT or such?

As some body else posted, aren’t all nukes dropped by aircraft gravity bombs?

Humblegunner rubbed me wrong this AM or I probably wouldn’t have paid too much attention.

Back to somnolence.


15 posted on 04/15/2017 6:21:20 AM PDT by x1stcav (Leftism is like rust: It corrodes 24 hours a day until eradicated.)
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To: davikkm
Tested a nuclear gravity bomb ASSEMBLY without any nuclear payload or explosive power WHAT SO EVER.

ZERO YEILD.

NO EARTH SHATTERING KABOOM !!

OMFG !! WE LITERALLY DROPPED A BOMBSHELL IN THE UNINHABITED DESERET, AND EVERYONE HERE KNOWS HOW EXPLOSIVE AND DANGEROUS BOMBSHELLS ARE AROUND HERE !!!


16 posted on 04/15/2017 6:25:20 AM PDT by Delta 21 (The minority demands NOTHING !)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

We were talking about New Mexico’s green chili burgers the other day.

I stopped in Old Town Albuquerque and had one at the Backstreet Grill. Very good quality. I think I was going about 82 mph with three semi-trucks around me when I went through Tijeras or I would have given you a call.


17 posted on 04/15/2017 6:45:47 AM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

I guess I should add that this thing has a couple of significant characteristics.

1. It is the original Nuc Bunker Buster — first versions developed in the 60 for ground penetration.

2. At 700 lbs it can be carried by anything — hence the F-16

3. At 11’8 and about a 13” diameter it can ship anywhere in large numbers.

4. It was developed when the Soviets were using about a thousand feet of granite for their Cheyenne Mtn equivalent — NK did dig that deep.


18 posted on 04/15/2017 6:50:53 AM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: humblegunner

Thanks, I went there because of your post. Well done site, good article. Cost me nothing.


19 posted on 04/15/2017 6:54:00 AM PDT by narses ( For the Son of man shall come ... and then will he render to every man according to his works.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

A cousin of mine retired from Sandia National Lab.


20 posted on 04/15/2017 6:54:43 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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