The Air Force began developmental test for its B61-12 tailkit last month by dropping the unarmed weapon from an F-15E, work that continues alongside a three-year system qualification flight testing program that began in March. "The B61-12 uses an Air Force-developed guided [tailkit assembly], which allows consolidation of four legacy B61 variants into a single B61-12," Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center spokeswoman Leah Bryant told Inside the Air Force in a Sept. 1 email. "The TKA program began its developmental...
