Sign In
Search
Air Force

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

Frank Wolfe Frank Wolfe
SHARE:
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…

Subscriber-only content. Please log in below.

Not a subscriber or registered user yet?

Please contact us at clientservices@accessintel.com or call us at 888-707-5814 (Monday – Thursday 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. and Friday 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET.), to start a free trial, get pricing information, order a reprint, or post an article link on your website.

Recommended

Air Force

Scale Top Modernization Priority for SPACECENT, As Commander Says He Talks Daily With CENTCOM Commander

Air Force

USAF Examining KC-46A Software Integration Effort

Air Force

Lockheed Martin, Ukrainian Air Force Discuss F-16 Upgrades

Air Force

Four Democratic Senators Ask SpaceX for Answers on Starshield Restrictions

Trending

Space Force Outlines Vision, Requirements To Increase Assured Access To Space
Sikorsky’s Unmanned U-Hawk Enters Flight Test Program, Sees ‘More Interest’ From Marines
Defense Watch: RTX C-UAS Award, MQ-25 Software Test, PrSM Inc. 4, Taiwan V-BAT, Autonomous Black Hawk
U.S. Space Force Forecasts Buy of 32 to 56 Meadowlands Jammers
Raytheon Receives Space Force Radar Contract For Missile Defense

Congress Updates

Budget

Hegseth Pushes For Reconciliation With At Least $350 Billion For Defense ‘Regardless’ Of Midterms Outcome

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday the Trump administration plans to continue its push for at least $350 billion in defense funds via the reconciliation process “regardless of what happens […]

Congress

Bipartisan Push in Senate to Hasten Export of 155 mm, GMLRS, HIMARS for Ukraine

A small, bipartisan group of senators is backing the Fast Tracking European Investment in Ukraine’s Defense Act, S. 5175, to hasten the export of allied buys of U.S. munitions for […]

Congress

Rep. Himes Signals Increased Contractor Oversight, if Democrats Win House

Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), the ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, plans to increase the committee’s contractor oversight if the Democrats win control of the House […]

Congress

CBO Estimates Loss of One-Half to Two-Thirds of U.S. Missile Interceptors Since June Last Year

A new Congressional Budget Office report estimates the cost of the Iran war through Aug. 1 as $38 billion and says that the U.S. has likely depleted between one-half and […]

The Force Multipliers

Force Multipliers

Michael Harrison – SANS Institute

Force Multipliers

Michael DiOrio – Dataminr

Force Multipliers

Arne Brinck – Dark Wolf Solutions

Force Multipliers

Jags Kandasamy – Latent AI

Job Feed

Post a Job // Post a Resume