B61

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Tests with Sandia’s Davis gun aid B61-12 life extension effort

May 11, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Three years of design, planning and preparation came down to a split second, a loud boom and an enormous splash in a successful impact test of hardware in the nose assembly of an unarmed, mock B61-12 nuclear bomb.The Sandia National Laboratories test al…

Categories: Military / Defense, Nuclear Weapons

Topics: B61, EMRTC, energetic materials, New Mexico Tech

Wind tunnel tests support improved aerodynamic design of B61-12 bomb

April 14, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has finished eight days of testing a full-scale mock unit representing the aerodynamic characteristics of the B61-12 gravity bomb in a wind tunnel.The tests on the mock-up were done to establish the configuration that will d…

Categories: Nuclear Weapons

Topics: Air Force, B61, nuclear, nuclear weapons, Sandia National Laboratories, stockpile, wind tunnel test

Sandia’s Greg White chosen as a New Face of Engineering 2014

February 20, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia engineer Greg White has been chosen as one of the 2014 New Faces of Engineering, a recognition program that highlights the work of engineers ages 30 and younger.The award is sponsored by the National Engineers Week Foundation, now the DiscoverE F…

Categories: Awards, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: awards, B61, Clemson University, engineering, NACME, National Engineers Week

Sandia conducts first impact test in years of B61 nonnuclear components

January 14, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A ground-penetrating bomb, minus its nuclear components, rammed through a target at the remote Coyote Canyon test range last month in Sandia National Laboratories’ first such rocket-driven impact test in seven years. Engineers said the Sandia componen…

Categories: Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: B61, bomb, large-scale testing, nuclear, nuclear weapons