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Boeing team conducts successful test of fuze for heavy bombs

St. Louis, USA - At Holloman Air Force Base

The Boeing Company announced yesterday that it has successfully tested a fuze well (the area where the fuze is installed) and fuze for high-speed penetrator warheads along with its partners Applied Research Associates (ARA), L-3 KDI Precision Products and Ellwood National Forge Co. The companies tested their design this past summer in a bomb that penetrated reinforced concrete at supersonic speeds. The...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1095680
Rome, Italy, 10/24/2008 14:00
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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