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AFGSC: Stock of Minuteman III Silos Sufficient, As USAF Prepares for Sentinel Transition

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AFGSC: Stock of Minuteman III Silos Sufficient, As USAF Prepares for Sentinel Transition
Pictured is a firefighter with the 90th Civil Engineering Squadron repelling down a training missile silo during the Global Strike Joint Missile Silo Rescue Working Group exercise at F.E. Warren AFB, Wyo. on Oct. 26th last year (U.S. Air Force Photo)

The U.S. Air Force inventory of silos able to launch 1970s-era Boeing [BA] LGM-30G Minuteman III ICBMs is in no immediate danger of dropping below the 400 ICBM threshold established by Congress in the fiscal 2017 National Defense Authorization Act, as the Air Force transitions to the planned Northrop Grumman [NOC] LGM-35A Sentinel ICBMs in the years ahead, according to Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC). The Sentinel ICBMs will require new silos. AFGSC said that on Apr. 3 it…

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