F-15E with tactical nuclear bombs B61-12 spotted at US Air Force exercises

During exercises aviation The US Air Force in the framework of the Red Flag program was seen equipping one of the aircraft with tactical nuclear weapons. It is stated that without a nuclear warhead. We are talking about the fighter F-15E Strike Eagle, which during the flights over the test site in Nevada was armed with the B61-12 aerial bomb.

This is the latest version of a homing nuclear bomb, which the Americans, according to some sources, have already managed to deliver to their air base in Germany.

The F-15E Strike Eagle fighter-bomber, on which the B61-12 bomb was suspended, is assigned to the Eglin military base. This version of the aviation ammunition under the wing of the F-15 was shot by photographer Chris Traiano.

The aircraft performed training exercises at the Tonopa training ground. However, at the moment there is no reliable information that the crew of the F-15E Strike Eagle carried out a strike using B61-12 for a specific target at the specified range.

The Western press recalls that the United States faced serious problems in the implementation of project B61-12. The main reason is that the project went beyond the limits of the initially defined funding. According to the latest information, the manufacturer requested an increase in funding by almost half.

For reference: at the moment, B61-12 carriers are B-2, F-15 and F-16 aircraft. It is planned to equip fifth-generation F-35A fighters with such bombs. The maximum power of the B61-12 bomb today is 50 kilotons.

Comments

[rocket757]

Everything is logical. The ammunition is in service, they will "try", learn to use ... not in combat equipment, of course.

[SRC P-15]

Quote: rocket757

Everything is logical. The ammunition is in service, they will "try", learn to use ... not in combat equipment, of course.

And if in combat ?! The main thing: if only they would not lose ...

[dirk182]

over Nevada, let them at least lose everything

[Grigory_45]

Quote: СРЦ П-15

And if in combat?

judging by the color, this is not a war bomb.

[Aibolit]

The eccentric specifically "cuts" in the "fighting"!
Listen, and you "dude" checked the photo fool?
Author anonymous
No links
Moged be topwar bablosy on boobies (advertising g0vnv, pr0simenyaTutka, and so on and so receives) ?????

[rocket757]

The jester knows how they have there ..... they have already lost their military products, but not on a combat platoon.

[g1washntwn]

Quote: rocket757

already lost their combat items, but not on a combat platoon

It was lost and only marriage in one of the circuits did not work. They also thought that the ammunition was inactive.

[Aibolit]

Everything is "logical"!
You +
DESIRE (and it would be correct)
Shoby, the author of this article would call himself and give: hell kaku no-be!
?
Eh?
To see an autor do this thing

[svp67]

And so it looks inside the "stealth" ...

[mitroha]

If only all this would appear and be applied exclusively on exercises

[Thrifty]

And how many bombs do they have?

[Grigory_45]

Quote: Thrifty

And how many bombs do they have?

which ones? All B61, or specifically adjusted B61-12?
combat-ready B61 - 20 in Germany, 20 in Belgium, 90 in Italy and the same number in Turkey (if not exported). About 10 bombs - in the Netherlands

[mvg]

combat ready B61 - 20 in Germany

Production October 1966 - early 90s; early modifications removed from service in the 70s - 80s; produced 3150, 1350 in service
At least Vika so gutar. There are more in Belgium, more in Ingirlik ...

[fruit_cake]

Will cities infected by zombies bomb?

[LMN]

Quote: fruit_cake

Will cities infected by zombies bomb?

Yeah .. get ready to fight the coronovirus and its consequences

[Cowbra]

Iran urgently needs a vigorous bonba.
There is simply no one else to use it for. A member of Iran’s nuclear club is no longer a goal either

[Tusv]

Quote: Cowbra

Iran urgently needs a vigorous bonba.

In Our bounty, warlike Shiites. Yeah don't go crazy

[Thrifty]

Tusv-out, in Chita, our helicopter today fired from a cannon at an apartment building! !!! "Militancy" of the crew, or what is it ????

[Cowbra]

Do you think this is worse than warlike fascists? For whom all but them are subhuman? Goy ... And they never respected international treaties? Or remember about Pakistan?
And yet, this is the condition for the survival of any independent country now. There are no options - they will have a bomb.

[knn54]

And how can this be "connected" with the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons?

[asv363]

DZOA none of the 5 countries legally owning nuclear weapons has not signed and is not seriously considering.

[Grigory_45]

Quote: knn54

And how can this be "connected" with the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons?

did any of the countries with nuclear weapons sign it? ..)

[cniza]

For reference: at the moment, B61-12 carriers are B-2, F-15 and F-16 aircraft. It is planned to equip fifth-generation F-35A fighters with such bombs. The maximum power of the B61-12 bomb today is 50 kilotons.

Oh, and our "partners" will finish badly ...

[Tusv]

Pancake. And still grumble that our flyers behave "not professionally" when approaching the state border by 70 km. Very correct and in your best interests

[LMN]

It is stated that without a nuclear warhead.

Are there exercises with special combat units? (I do not mean tests)

[Tusv]

Quote: LMN

Are there exercises with special combat units?

Imagine a special warhead was launched during exercises in the Baltic Sea. I'm not talking about Rashia Today, what Gretta Tumberg will say And most likely in pure Russian

[LMN]

Quote: Tusv

Imagine a special warhead was launched during exercises in the Baltic Sea. I'm not talking about Rashia Today, what Gretta Tumberg will say And most likely in pure Russian

If we start using special warheads during exercises, it seems to me that not only Gretta Tumberg will speak Russian.

[cniza]

Or maybe it's time already, otherwise we forgive them everything ...

[LMN]

Quote: cniza

Or maybe it's time already, otherwise we forgive them everything ...

Somehow harsh, right away like that
They got into the Turks by chance without special warheads and it came to be sort of like

[cniza]

So it worked for the Turks without warheads, but these do not understand ...

[LMN]

Quote: cniza

So it worked for the Turks without warheads, but these do not understand ...

If by chance, then I'm for

[cniza]

Of course, only by accident.

[Cowbra]

Quote: LMN

Are there exercises with special combat units?

In the USA - there are))) I remember that they have already beguiled once - they screwed inert bonbs on one wing, and vigorous ones on the other ... It was discovered only upon arrival at the airfield, the appointment ... It's a pity, they didn't throw it off, maybe the craving to "wave a club "would diminish

[Tusv]

Quote: Cowbra

I remember they already beguiled once

I remember that we drove them Polaris after unsuccessful exercises with special warheads

[LMN]

Quote: Tusv

I remember that we drove them Polaris after unsuccessful exercises with special warheads

What is the story?

[Operator]

The F-15E Strike Eagle is not a fighter, but a double strike aircraft (Soviet-class fighter-bomber).

[Tusv]

F - Fighter (Fighter), B - Bomber (Bomber), A - Attack (Attack aircraft). According to the Soviet classification F / B

[Operator]

In the title of F-15E is the word Strike - hit. The presence of a double cabin and conformal fuel tanks reduce the available overload of the aircraft, which clearly characterizes it not as a fighter.

[Grigory_45]

Quote: Operator

The presence of a double cabin and conformal fuel tanks reduce the available overload of the aircraft, which clearly characterizes it not as a fighter.

Hey, Pasans, they don’t count us as fighters !!!

In fact, now there are no clean fighters. All of them are multifunctional machines, i.e. fighter bombers (some more, some less)

[Victor March 47]

Quote: dirk182

over Nevada, let them at least lose everything

Better, of course, over Berlin. So that the Germans can see for themselves what a club is over their heads, and, finally, they begin to respect their country. Not like Aloizych, but like normal people.

[Pavel57]

You can throw a nuclear bomb with Hermes.

[Old partisan]

For every 50 kt we will answer 1 mt

[Ryaruav]

I am sure our guys make training flights the same way, but there is a question America, in terms of YAO, they write to kakat and Russia from where plus the same old test bk we don’t carry out the answer, where are we cooler and coronavirus is smart fans wherever Smolensk is clean and who has 75000 rubles for trips you know that when you leave our Russia forever, 99,9% of our good, competent audience will say the next tick has reclined the dog

[Linxs]

Abyrval.
What are you?
Russian language missed. I did not read the primer. My do not understand?

[nemez]

Quote: fruit_cake

Will cities infected by zombies bomb?

Are you about Ukrainians?

[JonnyT]

Dear, who can tell - what area is guaranteed to destroy 50 kilotons?

All this is disgusting. Now, any (from the point of view of a civilian layman) aircraft is a potential carrier of nuclear weapons