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Friday, August 17, 2012

Air Force bunker-busting bomb program moves forward with concept-development contract to Boeing

F-35 Lightning II |Air-launched weapons experts at the Boeing Co. Defense, Space & Security segment in St. Louis will help the U.S. Air Force design a rocket-propelled bomb for the F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter-bomber that can attack and destroy enemy bunkers, tunnel complexes, and other important deeply buried targets.

Boeing won a $1.4 million contract, announced earlier this month, for concept development of the High Velocity Penetrating Weapon (HVPW) program, which aims at developing a 2,000-pound bunker-busting munition with solid-rocket propulsion that will give the weapon the power of a 5,000-pound gravity bomb.

Awarding the contract to Boeing were officials of the Air Force Air Armament Center at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. Boeing also is working on a separate bunker-busting munitions program called the Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP).

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