If the US manages to build a bunker-buster powerful enough to knock out Iran's buried nuclear facilities, it can thank some ordnance geeks in Bavaria for helping get the job done. Here's the story.

The Air Force is taking the next steps to test, develop and produce a new class of “more penetrating” bunker buster weapons to enable aircraft to destroy a new level of fortified underground targets.

April 10, 2020: The U.S. Air Force is continuing to upgrade the effectiveness of its penetrator (“Bunker Buster”) bombs. Much of the upgrade work has gone into upgrading or fixing the fuze. Now, after ...

July 18, 2018: In mid-2018 the U.S. Air Force ordered production of the BLU-137/B as a replacement for the older BLU-109/B penetrator (“Bunker Buster”) bomb. BLU-109 has been in use since 1985 and is ...

The Air Force is developing more powerful “bunker buster” bombs, new reports say. An Air Force Research Laboratory officer is quoted in a post in the “Warrior Maven” blog saying that “The A2K will ...

The Air Force is taking the next steps to test, develop and produce a new class of “more penetrating” bunker buster weapons to enable aircraft to destroy a new level of fortified underground targets.

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Despite the vast number of bunkers, recent advances in fuzing technology for nuclear weapons are threatening to make the minimum civil defense standard obsolete. As ...