The recently revealed schedule deferral and cost increase to the B61-12 warhead life extension program are not affecting the production schedule of its tailkit assembly effort, which will deliver its first flyable units in January, well within the established time frame. "There is no plan to delay production of the tailkit assembly to meet the delayed [first production unit] of the B61-12 'all-up-round,'" Jacob Bailey, an Air Force spokesman, told Inside Defense in an Oct. 18 email. The warhead...
