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The super-fuze picture

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FIGURE 1. The deployment of the new MC4700 arming, fuzing, and firing system on the W76-1/Mk4A significantly increases the number of hard target kill-capable warheads on US ballistic missile submarines.

John Mecklin | March 2, 2017

A slide show of graphics that relate to a new way of fuzing US nuclear warheads that has greatly increased their lethality against hardened targets.

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