{"id":216818,"date":"2026-02-24T04:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T09:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/tail-kit-technology-sought-for-next-generation-penetrator\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T05:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:00:09","slug":"tail-kit-technology-sought-for-next-generation-penetrator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/tail-kit-technology-sought-for-next-generation-penetrator\/","title":{"rendered":"Tail Kit Technology Sought For Next-Generation Penetrator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/defense\/missile-defense-weapons\/tail-kit-technology-sought-next-generation-penetrator\">Tail Kit Technology Sought For Next-Generation Penetrator<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/defense\/missile-defense-weapons\/tail-kit-technology-sought-next-generation-penetrator\">https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/defense\/missile-defense-weapons\/tail-kit-technology-sought-next-generation-penetrator<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-24 04:52:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"aviationweek.com\">aviationweek.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    Tail Kit Technology Sought For Next-Generation Penetrator | Aviation Week Network<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/themes\/custom\/particle\/dist\/app-drupal\/assets\/AW_logo_horizontal_small_white.svg<\/p>\n<p>      Skip to main content<\/p>\n<p>                        Steve Trimble<br \/>\n                    <span class=\"article__date\">February 24, 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p>USAF started developing the MOP more than 20 years ago and completed the first drop test in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Credit: U.S. Air Force<\/p>\n<p>              A newly released request for information about tail kit technology adds a new angle to the U.S. Air Force\u2019s continued pursuit of a new weapon to replace the Dynetics\/Boeing GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP). The market survey released on Feb. 23 by the weapons division of the Air Force Life&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/author_thumbnail\/public\/authors\/Trimble_Steve_sized_0.jpg?itok=e31Tv8Ow\" alt=\"\" class=\"img author__image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>          Steve Trimble<\/p>\n<p class=\"author--teaser__bio\">Steve covers military aviation, missiles and space for the Aviation Week Network, based in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-size:2.5rem;\">Subscription Required<\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:25px;\"><span style=\"font-size:1.5rem;\"><strong>Tail Kit Technology Sought For Next-Generation Penetrator<\/strong><\/span> is published in Aerospace Daily &#038; Defense Report, an Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) Market Briefing and is included&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/defense\/missile-defense-weapons\/tail-kit-technology-sought-next-generation-penetrator\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tail Kit Technology Sought For Next-Generation Penetrator https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/defense\/missile-defense-weapons\/tail-kit-technology-sought-next-generation-penetrator Publish Date: 2026-02-24 04:52:00 Source Domain: aviationweek.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/crop_freeform\/public\/2026-02\/071218-f-9387t-021.jpeg?itok=XKBgjM24","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[85],"class_list":["post-216818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216820,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216818\/revisions\/216820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}