Divine Strake Delayed: The Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s “Divine Strake” test planned for June 2 in Nevada has been postponed, due to a lawsuit filed by the Western Shoshone tribe. According to The (St. George, Utah) Spectrum, the tribe has concern about the spread of radioactivity that might be in the soil already. DTRA Director James Tegnelia confirmed in March that the agency was planning to explode 700 tons of ammonium nitrate at the Nevada Test Site to test the effect on hardened buried targets.
Multiple B-21s are undergoing ground tests and being prepared to join the two aircraft now in test flight, and the Northrop Grumman is negotiating with the Air Force about how expanded production for the bomber could be accomplished, president and CEO Kathy Warden said Oct. 21. She also suggested a…
