The Air Force is designing a new munition, designated the BLU-136/B next-generation area-attack weapon increment II, to replace its older cluster bombs in the next three years following a 2008 Pentagon policy to do away with more than 111,000 area-attack weapons by the end of 2018. Service staff at Eglin Air Force Base, FL, are working with Orbital ATK, General Dynamics, Dynetics and an ARA-Faxon Firearms team to boost the munition's lethality to be greater than that of any other...