America’s Controversial Stealth Fighter Jet Can Now Carry Nukes

The Air Force certifies the F-35A as a ‘dual-capable’ stealth strike jet, but some doubt ‘history’s most expensive weapon system’ can deliver.

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It was a routine Pentagon announcement during a regular briefing the Friday before the president typically submits his annual defense budget request to Congress on the second Monday in March.

Since October 2023, “certain” Air Force F-35As have been operationally certified to carry the B61-12 thermonuclear gravity bomb, a spokesman for the Department of Defense’s (DOD’s) F-35 Joint Program Office told Pentagon beat writers.