Terwijl de wereld hysterisch is over het 'Noord-Koreaanse kernwapenprogramma', is de VS bezig met het testen van hun nieuwste nucleaire massavernietigingswapen........ Hoe zot wil je het hebben en dat door een 'land' dat al eens atoombommen tegen burgers heeft gebruikt..........
Met andere woorden: als de VS een oorlog tegen Rusland begint, of weet uit te lokken, is Volkel één van de eerste Russische doelen......... De kans dat dit gebeurt is levensgroot zoals je wellicht weet uit de berichtgeving en de (recente) geschiedenis, waar de VS er geen probleem mee heeft, de ene na de andere illegale oorlog te beginnen...... Sterker nog de VS en de NAVO zijn al bezig met een scenario te bedenken voor 'een beperkte nucleaire oorlog in Europa............'
Ach ja, je moet maar denken: als er een kernoorlog uitbreekt, zijn er daarna nog maar heel weinig docenten nodig, althans als kinderen zo'n oorlog overleven en zoals u begrijpt zullen dat alleen kinderen van welgestelde ouders, dan wel van politici en hoge ambtenaren zijn.........
Lees het volgende uitstekende artikel van Tyler Durden (Zero Hedge), zoals dit op Anti-Media werd gepubliceerd:
US Conducts Successful Field Test of New Nuclear Bomb
August
29, 2017 at 10:16 am
Written
by Tyler
Durden
(ZHE) —
In
mid-April, we
reported that “just
as tensions over North Korea’s nuclear program and potential US
airstrikes run wild, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) said that in conjunction with the US
Air Force, it had completed the first qualification flight test of
B61-12 gravity nuclear bomb on March 14 at the Tonopah Test Range in
Nevada.”
Four
months later, and just as concerns over North Korea’s provocative
launches have send shockwaves across global markets – again – the
US National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced another
successful flight test of B61-12 gravity nuclear bombs in Nevada. The
second qualification flight test for the nuclear bomb was carried out
by the NNSA and the US Air Force.
#NNSA & @usairforce complete second qualification flight test of B61-12 to validate design & system performance. nnsa.energy.gov/mediaroom/pres…
According
to the NNSA
press release,
two B61-12 gravity bombs (without a nuclear warhead) were dropped
from F-15 fighter jets on August 8 at Tonopah Test Range in Nevada,
and were designed to test the “non-nuclear functions and the
aircraft’s capability to deliver the weapon.” These tests are
part of a series over the next three years to qualify the B61-12 for
service. As we noted
at the time,
the first qualification flight test occurred in March.
“The
B61-12 life extension program is progressing on schedule to meet
national security requirements,” said Phil Calbos, acting NNSA
deputy administrator for Defense Programs. “These realistic flight
qualification tests validate the design of the B61-12 when it comes
to system performance.”
According
to the editor-in-chief of National Defense magazine, Igor
Korotchenko, the second test of the nuclear bomb could indicate that
Washington is speeding up its rearmament program. “The fact of the
test of this modification of the nuclear bomb indicates that the US
continues an accelerated rearmament program of its tactical nuclear
arsenal in Europe, as
well as that both Washington and Brussels are considering the
scenario of a limited nuclear war in Europe,”
he said.
Furthermore,
as RT
reminds us,
the test comes two months after Politico reported that US senators
were pushing legislation to compel President Donald Trump to take
steps to develop new missiles which would be “the first steps to
jettisoning what is known as the INF treaty.” Moscow said that such
a move would be “ridiculous” and would damage America itself as
well as its European allies. In July, Republican Senator Tom
Cotton, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, suggested
bypassing the milestone treaty that bans the testing, production and
possession of land-based intermediate-range missiles by both Moscow
and Washington. He urged the White House to “facilitate the
transfer of cruise missile technology to our (American) allies,”
explaining that “only the US and Russia have signed this treaty. No
other country did.”
After
the announcement of the plans to upgrade the B61 nuclear weapon,
Russia expressed its concerns that the move could destabilize global
security. “This means that the armaments threshold could in theory
have been lowered, which of course will destabilize the situation to
a certain extent,”said the deputy head of Russia’s Foreign
Ministry, Sergey Ryabkov, in August 2016. The program, started
under President Obama means that over the next 30 years Washington
could spend up to $1 trillion to modernize the US nuclear arsenal.
Shortly after his election, president Trump called for the US to
“greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability,” though he
criticized the Obama administration’s costly modernization program
during the election campaign.
The
latest test was the second in a series that will be conducted over
the next three years to qualify the B61-12 for service. Three
successful development flight tests were conducted in 2015.
“This demonstration of effective end-to-end system performance in a realistic ballistic flight environment marks another on-time achievement for the B61-12 Life Extension Program,” said Brig. Gen. Michael Lutton, NNSA’s principal assistant deputy administrator for military application. “The successful test provides critical qualification data to validate that the baseline design meets military requirements. It reflects the nation’s continued commitment to our national security and that of our allies and partners.”
“The
flight test included hardware designed by Sandia and Los Alamos
National Laboratories, manufactured by the Nuclear Security
Enterprise plants, and mated to the tail-kit assembly section,
designed by the Boeing Company under contract with the Air Force
Nuclear Weapons Center (AFNWC),” the NNSA statement said.
Phil
Hoover, an engineer at Sandia National Laboratories, shows off a
flight test body for a B61-12 nuclear weapon (zie de inhumane schoft trots zijn op zijn massavernietigingswapen)
The
B61-12 consolidates and replaces four B61 bomb variants in the
nation’s nuclear arsenal. The first production unit is scheduled to
be completed by March 2020.
The
original B61 gravity bomb is the mainstay of the Air Force’s
nuclear arsenal and one of the legs of the so-called nuclear triad,
along with the intercontinental ballistic missiles deployed from
either ground-based silos or oceangoing submarines. The B61 nuclear
gravity bomb, deployed from U.S. Air Force and NATO bases, has almost
50 years of service, “making it the oldest and most versatile
weapon in the enduring U.S. stockpile.” Numerous modifications have
been made to improve the B61’s safety, security, and reliability
since the first B61 entered service in 1968, and four B61 variants
remain in the stockpile: the 3, 4, 7, and 11. However, the aging
weapon system requires a life extension to continue deterring
potential adversaries and reassuring our allies and partners of our
security commitments to them.
The
B61-12 LEP will refurbish, reuse, or replace all of the bomb’s
nuclear and non-nuclear components to extend the service life of the
B61 by at least 20 years, “and to improve the bomb’s safety,
effectiveness, and security” according
to the NNSA.
The B61-12 first production unit will occur in FY 2020. The bomb will
be approximately 12 feet long and weigh approximately 825 pounds. The
bomb will be air-delivered in either ballistic gravity or guided drop
modes, and is being certified for delivery on current strategic
(B-2A) and dual capable aircraft (F-15E, F-16C/D & MLU, PA-200)
as well as future aircraft platforms (F-35, B-21).
President
Trump has endorsed the ambitious and expensive plan to modernize the
US nuclear triad, begun under his predecessor.
The
August test of the B61-12 was the second in a series with the final
design review due in September 2018 and the first production unit
scheduled for completion by March 2020. Once the bomb is authorized
for use in 2020, the US plans to deploy some 180 of the B61-12
precision-guided thermonuclear bombs to five European countries as
follows:
- Germany -20;
- Italy – 70;
- Netherlands – 20;
- Turkey -50;
- Belgium – 20;
…
although
in light of the recent deterioration in relations between Washington
and Ankara, it will likely consider reassessing the Turkish
deployment.
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* Gegarandeerd dat deze bom straks alleen onder de nieuwe Nederlandse 'straaljager', de JSF past. Voordeel voor de Russen: de JSF kan geen jager genoemd worden naar de huidige standaard daarvoor, het toestel klimt, rent en wendt te langzaam en kan zich wat dat betreft nog net met de A-10 Thunderbolt uit de 70er jaren meten...... Bovendien is de stealth technologie al gebroken door de Russen en Chinezen, zodat zij het toestel wel op de radar kunnen zien......... Daarnaast mag het toestel alleen gebruikt worden als de VS akkoord is met het doel, zo niet, kan de VS het toestel op afstand blokkeren voor gebruik.........
