Volkel Air Base
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Volkel Air Base is a military airbase used by the Royal Netherlands Air and Space Force - Dutch: Koninklijke Luchtmacht, located near the village of Volkel, Netherlands. Located in the north-east corn
A Royal Netherlands Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon at Volkel Air Base
Fliegerhorst Volkel as seen from above in 1944 after having been bombed by allied forces
Demonstration of a B61 nuclear bomb disarming procedure on a “dummy” in an underground Weapons Security and Storage System (WS3) vault at Volkel Air Base
B61 nuclear bomb
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The B61 nuclear bomb is the primary thermonuclear gravity bomb in the United States Enduring Stockpile following the end of the Cold War. It is a low-to-intermediate yield strategic and tactical nucle
Volkel Air Base
…Wing from the United States Air Force. After more than 50 years, former Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers in 2013 officially confirmed the presence of 22 B61 nuclear bombs at Volkel. In 2021 training with the latest B-61-12 modification began and in December 2023, 14 F-16 could be seen performing an elephant walk (aeronautics…
B61 training unit intended for ground crew. It accurately replicates the shape and size of a "live" B61 (together with its safety/arming mechanisms) but contains only inert materials
A B61 bomb undergoing disassembly.
B61 bomb components. The physics package is contained in the silver cylinder center-left