B90 (nuclear weapon)
The B90 was being developed thermonuclear bomb the United States . It should be specially adapted for the needs of naval aviators in the US Navy and the USMC . Possible deployment scenarios would have been attacks on ground targets or the combating of sea targets, in particular aircraft carriers and submarines.
development
The B90 was developed in the late 1980s. In September 1991, the development of the B90, together with the thermonuclear warheads W89 and W91 and the missile studies AGM-131 SRAM II and SRAM-T , stopped. The project never reached mass production. Nevertheless, the designation B 90 was given in 1988 for a bomb put into service. Live weapon tests were conducted until 1992.
Technical specifications
- Diameter: 34 cm (13.3 in)
- Length: 3 m (118 in)
- Weight: 354 kg (780 lb)
- Explosive power: 200 kt TNT
(The non-metric data refer to US military data.)