[McGruff]

Wish I could post the whole article. Worth reading.

[griffin]

Don’t look like the warhead part. No biggie. Just don’t drop her again PLEEZE!!!

[rlmorel]

We used to load some variant of that (maybe the B60) on our carrier based attack aircraft back in the Seventies, and I was always struck by how...er...”Buck Rogers-ish” they looked with the polished aluminium skin and those futuristic fins!

It was almost funny to think that bomb that looked like the shape was created by an imaginative 5th grader, could kill millions of people.

Almost...

[Red Badger]

OOPS!.................

[struggle]

You better be careful or you’ll get demoted to Private Third Class

[al baby]

Define damaged ?

[Beowulf9]

incredible!

[HereInTheHeartland]

I feel the pain.
My lawnmower was damaged last week in my garage when I pulled my snowblower in.
So I can understand what these guys are going through .

[Sirius Lee]

There is pink sticky tape covering an apparent hole.

Ah, good to go then.

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

Not to worry. XiJinBiden will ensure it is fixed and given to his dancing poppet, Volodymyr. Add in a few F-15s and F-16s, just for fun!

[pfflier]

Looking at the picture, the EOD shoulder patches appear to be photo shopped. The lettering is too black and intense for an embroidered patch.

The DoD even authorizing release of a picture of a "special weapon", particularly a damaged one, would be highly irregular unless it was a dummy or training device simulating the shape.

That opinion is also buried in the article, far beyond the reach of headline readers.

[DesertRhino]

“There is pink sticky tape covering an apparent hole.”

Oh, well that should fix it. Pink duct tape.

[CodeJockey]

From the article:

Any damage to a nuclear weapon is known as a “bent spear” incident, and generally kept secret.

Did not know this.

[G Larry]

"Arms control advocates have long argued the B61 was militarily obsolete..."

s/b

'Arms control advocates have long been obsolete ...'

[FreedomPoster]

Ping

[null and void]

[Jet Jaguar]

Ping.

[Oscar in Batangas]

“Takes a licking and keeps on ticking”

[mikegreenwell39]

Coming on the heels of multiple US nuclear commanders and leaders being fired for failing readiness tests, and as the Biden brain trust and the perfumed princes of the Pentagon rattle nuclear sabers vs Russia, this does not bode well for the US. Cheating and drug scandals among the missile crews, continued failed hypersonic missile tests, and an absence of new nuclear investments over the past twenty years, while Russia (after the pause due to the Yeltsin Clinton looting of Russia) has spent lavishly on both strategic nuclear technologies and ABM- I think the USA will be at a considerably more vulnerable position vis a vis nuclear conflict with Russia or China than most realize.

[VanShuyten]

Does the guy that took this photograph get 5 years in Ft. Leavenworth, like that poor submariner who took a selfie in the engine room?