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Air Force Eyes Boosted Bunker Buster To Defeat Hardened Targets

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By Michael Sirak The Air Force is interested in launching a program early next decade to develop a 2,000-pound boosted penetrator munition as an enhanced means of defeating hardened and deeply buried targets, according to a senior service weapons developer. "We are just completing a hard target study that has kind of shown that we need to go faster to go deeper," John Corley, director of the Capabilities Integration Directorate within the Air Armament Center (AAC) at Eglin AFB, Fla.,…

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