The officer quoted is identified as Col. Gary Hasse, an AFRL weapons developer. AFRL is headquarted at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
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The A2K and A5K are types of bombs, with the blog reporting that the Air Force is accelerating production of 2,000 and 5,000 bunker-buster bombs, with the goal of improving "penetration and overall attack performance." The A5K will have a 5,000-pound warhead.
In 2017, the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, also based at Wright-Patterson, issued a request for proposals looking for vendors to build an initial run of 1,000 munitions.
A National Interest story published Tuesday cites "service solicitation documents," saying the A2K "shall consist of a high strength steel penetrator case and sub-components that include an aft closure plate, a fuze well, multiple fuze retaining rings, a relocated fuze arming generator adapter, and external routing of the fuze charging cable."
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