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Air Force General Says Sentinel Can Be Tipped With Multiple Warheads

Friday, December 1st, 2023

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Air Force General Says Sentinel Can Be Tipped With Multiple Warheads

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The U.S. Air Force is prepared to put multiple nuclear warheads atop its new Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missiles if called to do so, according to the officer in charge of fielding the new missile. Brig. Gen. Colin Connor, the Air Force’s director of intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) modernization, said on Wednesday that the new LGM-35 Sentinel, formerly known as the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent, can carry several of the W87-0 or W87-1 warheads. The existing Minuteman III missiles that Sentinel will…

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