A top Air Force general sees a long future for Sentinel after it enters service, but there is still a murky and increasingly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By July 2024, the public knew the program had blown its budget. But the announcement was nonetheless staggering. The projected ...

The Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) nuclear weapons program, in which the Air Force is moving to replace its old land-based nuclear missiles with new ones, has been troubled from ...

Key Points and Summary on the LGM-35A - The LGM-35A Sentinel program, intended to modernize the land-based leg of the U.S. nuclear triad, is a "nightmare" of mismanagement and cost overruns. -The ...

Overseen by the 717th Test Squadron and the Arnold Engineering Development Test Complex, the ground-based fire of the Sentinel’s second stage rocket motor was “conducted in a vacuum chamber to ...

The Air Force has developed planning documents for the transition from Minuteman III to Sentinel but has not developed a risk management plan. The transition was planned to begin in fiscal year 2025, ...

Heavier, faster, more lethal, cyber hardened and more reliable are just a few of the attributes woven into the US Air Force’s new Sentinel ICBM, a revamped weapons modernization effort slated to ...

The projected price of an Air Force program to build a next-generation nuclear missile – dubbed Sentinel – had risen 81%, from $77.7 billion to nearly $141 billion. (That’s the equivalent of Americans ...