Tonopah Test Range

2 Results

Flight tests to show B61-12 will work on Air Force’s newest fighter jet

November 23, 2020 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A mock B61-12’s strike in the dusty Nevada desert successfully completed the first in a series of flight tests with the U.S. Air Force’s newest fighter jet, demonstrating the bomb’s first release from an internal bomb bay at greater than the speed of sound. The flight test...

Categories: Coronavirus, Military / Defense, Nuclear Weapons

Topics: B-2, B61-12, F-15E, F-35A, flight test, Life Extension Program, nuclear deterrence, Tonopah Test Range, U.S. Air Force

An F-35A drops a B61-12 over Sandia's Tonopah Test Range.

Upgrades at Sandia’s Tonopah Test Range help weapons testing

June 21, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A former test director at Sandia National Laboratories’ Tonopah Test Range has described its combination of old and new tracking and data-collection equipment as like a mix of horseless carriages and horses — you can’t feed oats to the horseless carriages and you can’t gas up the...

Categories: Nuclear Weapons

Topics: telemetry, Tonopah Test Range, upgrades